Motivational Quotes

Politics

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Politics

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

Thoreau, Henry David

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Benn, Tony

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bush, George

10.

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.

11.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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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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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Will Rogers

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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.

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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

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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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.

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Mencken, H. L.

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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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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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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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.

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Orwell, George

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Ambrose Bierce