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

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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

Orwell, George

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

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

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

Albert Einstein

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

11.

One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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

Cary, Joyce

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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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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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Rogers, Will

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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 politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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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

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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.