Motivational Quotes

Politics

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Politics

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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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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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

28.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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

Platen