Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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

Churchill, Winston

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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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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.

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

Russell, Dora

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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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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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

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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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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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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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Seneca

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean