Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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 politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Parkinson, Cecil

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

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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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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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

Benn, Tony

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Hubbard, Kin

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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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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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.