Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Tocqueville, Alexis De

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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

Dane, Frank

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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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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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

Berra, Yogi

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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

Platen

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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

Cameron, W. J.

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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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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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 diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Rogers, Will

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.