Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

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

Margaret Cho

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

Arbuthnot, John

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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

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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 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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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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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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

Bush, George

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

Dane, Frank

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Brown, Jerry

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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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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 is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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

Rogers, Will

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler