Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

- R. A. Butler

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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.

What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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

Bevan, Aneurin

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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

10.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

11.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rogers, Will

17.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

18.

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

Fischer, John

19.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

33.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Aristotle

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

37.

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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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

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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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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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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Bush, George

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.