Motivational Quotes

Politics

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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

Barres

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Albert Einstein

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ambrose Bierce

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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A politician is a man who understands government and 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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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 most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Aristotle

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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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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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

Rostand, Jean

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Benn, Tony

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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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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.