Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Politics

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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.

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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.

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

18.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Roche, John P.

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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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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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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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

Kissinger, Henry

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Charles De Gaulle

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Fredrich

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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

Shakespeare, William