Motivational Quotes

Politics

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

- Wilson, Harold

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Albert Einstein

I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

13.

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

14.

To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

15.

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

16.

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

Dane, Frank

17.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

18.

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 two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

21.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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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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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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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Rogers, Will

27.

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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

29.

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

Bush, George

30.

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

31.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

32.

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

33.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

35.

What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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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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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

39.

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.

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

43.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

44.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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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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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

47.

Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

48.

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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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