Motivational Quotes

Politics

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

- Waugh, Auberon

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Herriot, Edouard

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

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

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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

Russell, Dora

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Dane, Frank

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Rostand, Jean

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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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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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

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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 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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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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.

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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