Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

- Ernest Benn

Best Quotes about Politics

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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

Benn, Tony

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Rogers, Will

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Bush, George

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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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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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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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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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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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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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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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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Dane, Frank

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A politician is a man who understands government and 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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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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