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

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Larry Hardiman

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

Bagehot, Walter

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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

Bacon, Francis

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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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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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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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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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

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

Kempton, Murray