Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

- Ernest Benn

Best Quotes about Politics

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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.

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

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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.

Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Bush, George

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

Orwell, George

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

16.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

19.

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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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

21.

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

Taft, William Howard

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Arbuthnot, John

24.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

25.

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

Noonan, Peggy

26.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

28.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

30.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

31.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Cannon, Joseph

33.

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

Benn, Tony

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

35.

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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

Nunn, Gregory

40.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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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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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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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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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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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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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

48.

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

Bryan, William Jennings

49.

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

50.

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

Brogan, Denis E.