Motivational Quotes

Politics

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Politics

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Aristotle

The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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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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

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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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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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Deighton, Len

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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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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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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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