Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

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

Fischer, John

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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

Shakespeare, William

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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

Major, John

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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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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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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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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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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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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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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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