Motivational Quotes

Politics

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

- Culbertson, Ely

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Gaulle, Charles De

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Baudrillard, Jean

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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

Fischer, John

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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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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Ephron, Nora

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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

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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 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

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

Arbuthnot, John

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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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

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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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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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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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.

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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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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Hattersley, Roy

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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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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 has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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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 is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon