Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Will, George F.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Jackson, Jesse

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.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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

Naito, Fern

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Roche, John P.

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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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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Cary, Joyce

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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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

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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A politician is a man who understands government and 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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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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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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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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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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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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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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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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