Motivational Quotes

Politics

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

- Gorbachev, Mikhail

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

10.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

14.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

15.

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

Seneca

16.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

17.

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

Eban, Abba

18.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.

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

Kissinger, Henry

20.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

21.

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

Platen

22.

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

23.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

24.

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

25.

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

26.

Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

27.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

29.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

31.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

32.

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

Rogers, Will

33.

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

Margaret Cho

34.

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

Charles De Gaulle

35.

To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

36.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

37.

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

Grant, Amy

38.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

39.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

40.

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

41.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

42.

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

43.

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

Dane, Frank

44.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

Kempton, Murray

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

50.

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman