Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Barres

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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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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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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

Shakespeare, William

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

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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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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 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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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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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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Orwell, George

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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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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.

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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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

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers