Motivational Quotes

Politics

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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

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

Tweed, Boss

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

Paul Valery

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

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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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Churchill, Winston

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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

Larry Hardiman

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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

Noonan, Peggy

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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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

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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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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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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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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

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay