Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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

Hattersley, Roy

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Aristotle

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

10.

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

11.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

12.

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

13.

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

14.

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

15.

The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

16.

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

17.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

19.

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

Hubbard, Kin

20.

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

21.

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

Fredrich

22.

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.

23.

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

24.

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

25.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

26.

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

Jackson, Jesse

27.

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

Kennedy, Joseph

28.

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

29.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

30.

The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

31.

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

32.

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

33.

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

Naito, Fern

34.

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

Russell, Dora

35.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

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

37.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

38.

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

39.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

40.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

41.

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

42.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

43.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

44.

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Rogers, Will

48.

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

49.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

50.

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