Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Clarke, James Freeman

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Rogers, Will

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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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Rogers, Will

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Certeau, Michel De

31.

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Bush, George

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John