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

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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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

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Noonan, Peggy

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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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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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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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

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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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.

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Orwell, George

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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

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

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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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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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Taft, William Howard

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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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