Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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.

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Rostand, Jean

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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

Margaret Cho

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

Paul Valery

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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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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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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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

Plato

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert