Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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

Charles De Gaulle

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

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

Kennedy, Joseph

11.

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

12.

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

Rogers, Will

13.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

18.

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

20.

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

Byrne, Robert

21.

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

Bryan, William Jennings

22.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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

24.

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

25.

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

27.

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

28.

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

30.

The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

31.

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

32.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

33.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

34.

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

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Brown, Jerry

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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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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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

48.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank