Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Herriot, Edouard

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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

Field, Franklin

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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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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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

Cameron, W. J.

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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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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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Bush, George

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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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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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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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