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

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

Marquis, Don

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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

Benn, Tony

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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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

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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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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

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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 life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Arbuthnot, John

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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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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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

Charles De Gaulle

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Kempton, Murray

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Roche, John P.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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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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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson