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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
- Thoreau, Henry David
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Best Quotes about Politics

1.
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

2.
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

3.
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
Morley, John

4.
Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.
Dane, Frank

5.
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

6.
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Thatcher, Margaret

7.
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
Byrne, Robert

8.
Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
Ashdown, Paddy

9.
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

10.
In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.
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

12.
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Brittain, Vera

13.
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
Humphrey, Hubert H.

14.
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

15.
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

16.
Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.
Hijazi, Muhammad

17.
Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.
Kennedy Jr., John F.

18.
Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.
Powell, L. R.

19.
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

20.
My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
Gorbachev, Mikhail

21.
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.

22.
The first mistake in public business is going into it.
Franklin, Benjamin

23.
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

24.
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

25.
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Bacon, Francis

26.
To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.
Platen

27.
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.
Bryce, James

28.
If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.
Hubbard, Kin

29.
People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.
Bush, George

30.
Politics is largely a matter of heart.
R. A. Butler

31.
Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

32.
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
Major, John

33.
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.

34.
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.
Cary, Joyce

35.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson

36.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
Mccarthy, Mary

37.
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

38.
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
Certeau, Michel De

39.
A politician is one that would circumvent God.
Shakespeare, William

40.
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Rostand, Jean

41.
A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

42.
The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.
Barres

43.
The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Benn, Tony

44.
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.

45.
No party is as bad as its leaders.
Rogers, Will

46.
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
Bevan, Aneurin

47.
I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.
Tweed, Boss

48.
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
Disraeli, Benjamin

49.
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

50.
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.
Weber, Max


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