Motivational Quotes

Politics

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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

Hattersley, Roy

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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.

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

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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

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A politician is a man who understands government and 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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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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

Dane, Frank

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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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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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Aristotle

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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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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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