Motivational Quotes

Politics

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

- Nunn, Gregory

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Deighton, Len

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

Kocher, Gerhard

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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

Huxley, Aldous

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Charles De Gaulle

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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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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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

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Cary, Joyce

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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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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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Kissinger, 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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings