Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Cameron, W. J.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Heine, Heinrich

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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

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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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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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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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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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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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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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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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

Nathan, George Jean

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Field, Franklin

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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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert