Motivational Quotes

Politics

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

- Langley, Edward

Best Quotes about Politics

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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

Nixon, Richard M.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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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, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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

Benn, Tony

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kissinger, Henry

25.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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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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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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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.

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Naito, Fern

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Platen

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Horace

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith