Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Politics

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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

Benn, Tony

10.

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

Goldwater, Barry

11.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

13.

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 apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

15.

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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

18.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

19.

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

Charles De Gaulle

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

22.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

Bagehot, Walter

25.

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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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

29.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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

31.

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

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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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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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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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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Bacon, Francis

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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 aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

47.

One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

49.

What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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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.