Motivational Quotes

Politics

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

- Weber, Max

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Kempton, Murray

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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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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 am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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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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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Arbuthnot, John

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Mark B. Cohen

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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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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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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

Dane, Frank