Motivational Quotes

Politics

Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Politics

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Nixon, Richard M.

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

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

Benn, Tony

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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

13.

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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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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

Fredrich

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

Larry Hardiman

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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

34.

The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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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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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bacon, Francis

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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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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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan