Motivational Quotes

Politics

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

- Greenfield, Meg

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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 art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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.

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Lowman, Hariold

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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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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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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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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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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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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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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas