Motivational Quotes

Politics

The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

- Field, Franklin

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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.

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

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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

Aristotle

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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

Dane, Frank

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Dane, Frank

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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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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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