Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Politics

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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.

Junius

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Dane, Frank

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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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 applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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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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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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

Noonan, Peggy

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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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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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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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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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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 problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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.