Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Baudrillard, Jean

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Brown, Jerry

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Arbuthnot, John

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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

Margaret Cho

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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.

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Rogers, Will

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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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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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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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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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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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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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.