Motivational Quotes

Politics

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Nathan, George Jean

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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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

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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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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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

Bush, George

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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

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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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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Platen

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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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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 about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John