Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Naito, Fern

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Rogers, Will

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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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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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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

Herriot, Edouard

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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

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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 apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.