Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Macmillan, Harold

Best Quotes about Politics

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Thoreau, Henry David

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

10.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

11.

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

12.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

Roche, John P.

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

16.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

17.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

18.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

19.

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

Plato

20.

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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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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

Seneca

23.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

24.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

25.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

26.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

27.

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

28.

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

Fredrich

29.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

32.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

33.

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

34.

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

35.

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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

38.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

40.

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

Lowman, Hariold

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

46.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Jefferson, Thomas