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

Eban, Abba

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

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

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Fredrich

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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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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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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

Benn, Tony

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

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

Herriot, Edouard

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

Rogers, Will

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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

Rogers, Will

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous