Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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

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.

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

Plato

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Seneca

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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

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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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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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

Fredrich

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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.

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Deighton, Len

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

Dane, Frank

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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

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

Broun, Heywood

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

Benn, Tony

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore