Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

- Mcewan, Ian

Best Quotes about Politics

Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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.

When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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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 work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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

Charles De Gaulle

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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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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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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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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert