Motivational Quotes

Politics

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

- Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

Best Quotes about Politics

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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

Baudrillard, Jean

I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bacon, Francis

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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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

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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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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

28.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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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

31.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

43.

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean