Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Fredrich

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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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.

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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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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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