Motivational Quotes

Politics

Man is by nature a political animal.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Politics

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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

Quinton, John

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.

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

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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

Plato

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

Naito, Fern

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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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 diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Taft, William Howard

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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 Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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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

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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

Will, George F.

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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

Rostand, Jean

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Arbuthnot, John

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Platen

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