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

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Naito, Fern

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Churchill, Winston

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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

Gaulle, Charles De

11.

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

12.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

14.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

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

Rogers, Will

18.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

19.

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

20.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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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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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Horace

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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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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

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

Larry Hardiman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bush, George

32.

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Barres

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Kissinger, Henry

45.

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

46.

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Pell, Claiborne

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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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