Motivational Quotes

Politics

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Shakespeare, William

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Aristotle

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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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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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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Dane, Frank

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

Platen

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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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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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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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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry