Motivational Quotes

Politics

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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.

People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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.

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Pell, Claiborne

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Byrne, Robert

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

Rostand, Jean

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar