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

When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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

Will, George F.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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

Seneca

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

11.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Gaulle, Charles De

15.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Tweed, Boss

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Paul Valery

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Fredrich

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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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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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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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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

Dane, Frank

46.

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

47.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley