Motivational Quotes

Politics

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

- Fischer, John

Best Quotes about Politics

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Benn, Tony

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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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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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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

Hattersley, Roy

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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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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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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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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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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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

Higgins, George V.

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Fredrich

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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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

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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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