Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Platen

Best Quotes about Politics

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hearst, William Randolph

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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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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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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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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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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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

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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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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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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

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

48.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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.

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

Greeley, Horace