Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Hijazi, Muhammad

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Tweed, Boss

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

Fischer, John

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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

Benn, Tony

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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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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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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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Rogers, Will

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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

Field, Franklin

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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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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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