Motivational Quotes

Politics

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about Politics

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery