Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics makes strange postmasters.

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Politics

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Hattersley, Roy

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ephron, Nora

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

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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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

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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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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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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

24.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Fredrich

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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

Brogan, Denis E.

35.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Byrne, Robert

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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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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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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

40.

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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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