Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Platen

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Dane, Frank

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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

Roche, John P.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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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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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rogers, Will

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel