Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Paul Valery

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Rogers, Will

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Baudrillard, Jean

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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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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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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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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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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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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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A politician is a man who understands government and 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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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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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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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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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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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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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

Higgins, George V.

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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Politics is the science of urgencies.