Motivational Quotes

Politics

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

- Junius

Best Quotes about Politics

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Ephron, Nora

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

12.

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

Rogers, Will

13.

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

Fredrich

14.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Churchill, Winston

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Baudrillard, Jean

33.

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

Aristotle

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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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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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

40.

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.