Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Benn, Tony

Best Quotes about Politics

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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

Hattersley, Roy

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Cameron, W. J.

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bush, George

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Grant, Amy

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Tweed, Boss

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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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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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