Motivational Quotes

Politics

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

- Hearst, William Randolph

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Welles, Orson

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Will, George F.

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

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Benn, Tony

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Lowman, Hariold

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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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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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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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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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Dane, Frank

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

Rogers, Will

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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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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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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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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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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)