Motivational Quotes

Politics

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

- Galsworthy, John

Best Quotes about Politics

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

Tweed, Boss

People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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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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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Taft, William Howard

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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

Lowman, Hariold

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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

Mitchell, George J.

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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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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Major, John

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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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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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson