Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Politics

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Margaret Cho

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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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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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

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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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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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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 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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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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

Rogers, Will

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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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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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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