Motivational Quotes

Politics

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Kennedy, Joseph

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.

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

Aristotle

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

Hubbard, Kin

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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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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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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

Bush, George

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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

Benn, Tony

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.