Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Mitchell, George J.

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.

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

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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

Higgins, George V.

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

Herriot, Edouard

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Broun, Heywood

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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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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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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

Benn, Tony

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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.

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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.

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Barres

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Aristotle

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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

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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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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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John