Motivational Quotes

Politics

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Politics

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Dane, Frank

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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 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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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Russell, Dora

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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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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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

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Cameron, W. J.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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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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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston