Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Nathan, George Jean

Best Quotes about Politics

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Will, George F.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Byrne, Robert

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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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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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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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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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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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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Rogers, Will

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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

Benn, Tony

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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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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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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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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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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