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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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 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

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

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

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 the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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

Bush, George

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Rostand, Jean

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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 organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

Cannon, Joseph

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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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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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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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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Aristotle

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

Rogers, Will

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Margaret Cho

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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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 adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Kennedy, Joseph

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.