Motivational Quotes

Politics

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

- Heath, Edward

Best Quotes about Politics

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Major, John

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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.

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

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Pell, Claiborne

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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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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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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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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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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 diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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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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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.