Motivational Quotes

Politics

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Politics

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Nathan, George Jean

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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

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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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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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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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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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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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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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Platen

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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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

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Bush, George

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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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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Dane, Frank

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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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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.