Motivational Quotes

Politics

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Cameron, W. J.

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

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 is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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

Dane, Frank

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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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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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm 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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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

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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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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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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.

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

Field, Franklin

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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

Albert Einstein

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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 largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.