Motivational Quotes

Politics

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

- Laird, Melvin R.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Benn, Tony

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.

Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Tweed, Boss

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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

Taft, William Howard

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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

Barres

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

24.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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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 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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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

36.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Will Rogers

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca