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

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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

Roche, John P.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

Pell, Claiborne

11.

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

12.

The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

13.

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

14.

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

15.

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

16.

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

Rogers, Will

17.

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

18.

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

Rogers, Will

19.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

20.

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

21.

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

Nathan, George Jean

22.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

23.

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

24.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

25.

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

Certeau, Michel De

26.

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

27.

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

30.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

31.

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

32.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

33.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

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

36.

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

Will, George F.

37.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

38.

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

39.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

40.

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

42.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

43.

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

44.

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

45.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

46.

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

47.

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

48.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

49.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

50.

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