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

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

10.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

11.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

12.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

14.

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

15.

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

16.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

17.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

18.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

19.

The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

20.

When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

21.

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

22.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

23.

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

24.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

25.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

26.

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

27.

Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

28.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

29.

What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

30.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

31.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

32.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

36.

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

Paul Valery

37.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

38.

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

Brogan, Denis E.

39.

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

40.

Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

41.

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

42.

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

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

43.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

44.

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

45.

I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

46.

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

47.

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

48.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

49.

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

50.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith