Motivational Quotes

Politics

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

- Kennedy, Joseph

Best Quotes about Politics

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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

Larry Hardiman

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

Byrne, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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

Aristotle

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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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.

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

27.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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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.

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

35.

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

41.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Taft, William Howard

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.