Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Noonan, Peggy

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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

Will, George F.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Fredrich

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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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

Major, John

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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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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 political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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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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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will