Motivational Quotes

Politics

It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

- Nkrumah, Kwame

Best Quotes about Politics

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Will, George F.

Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Certeau, Michel De

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Marquis, Don

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Benn, Tony

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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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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

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Nunn, Gregory

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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.