Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Politics

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

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Platen

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Rogers, Will

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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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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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

40.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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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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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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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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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.

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad