Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Dane, Frank

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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

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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

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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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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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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

Will, George F.

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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.

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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

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Marx, Karl

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Fischer, John

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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