Motivational Quotes

Politics

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Bush, George

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

10.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

Mitchell, George J.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

13.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

14.

The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

17.

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

Brogan, Denis E.

18.

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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

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

Benn, Tony

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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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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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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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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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

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

Arbuthnot, John

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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

Nixon, Richard M.