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

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Russell, Dora

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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

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

Fredrich

Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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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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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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 is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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

Ambrose Bierce

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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

Goldwater, Barry

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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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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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

Horace

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

Rogers, Will

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.