Motivational Quotes

Politics

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

- Henley, Anthony

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

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.

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

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Rogers, Will

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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

Field, Franklin

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Cameron, W. J.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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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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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

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

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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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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 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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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 made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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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.