Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

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Best Quotes about Politics

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bush, George

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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 is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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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

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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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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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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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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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Naito, Fern

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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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.

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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

Certeau, Michel De

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin