Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is the art of the next best.

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Cameron, W. J.

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

Ephron, Nora

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Dane, Frank

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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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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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Will, George F.

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

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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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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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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

Field, Franklin

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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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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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

Will, George F.

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord