Motivational Quotes

Politics

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

- Peter, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Politics

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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

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

Rogers, Will

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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

Deighton, Len

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

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Cameron, W. J.

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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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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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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.

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Cary, Joyce

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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 has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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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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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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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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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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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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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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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