Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Orwell, George

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Fischer, John

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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

Aristotle

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Mark B. Cohen

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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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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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

Margaret Cho

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

Roche, John P.

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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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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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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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