Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Rinehart, Dana Gillman

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Kissinger, Henry

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Cameron, W. J.

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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

Swift, Jonathan

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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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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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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

Eban, Abba

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Major, John

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Platen

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

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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

Fischer, John

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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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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

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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 one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.