Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Will, George F.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Benn, Tony

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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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 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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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

37.

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Taft, William Howard

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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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

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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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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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.

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.