Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Benn, Tony

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

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... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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

Rogers, Will

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

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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

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

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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 doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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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 and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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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

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

Pell, Claiborne

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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