Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

- Lester B. Pearson

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Herriot, Edouard

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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

Charles De Gaulle

People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Bush, George

13.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

14.

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

Fredrich

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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

16.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

17.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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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

20.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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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.

22.

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

23.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

24.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

25.

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

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

28.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

32.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

33.

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

34.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

35.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Platen

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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

Arbuthnot, John

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

41.

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

Barres

42.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

43.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

48.

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

49.

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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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.