Motivational Quotes

Politics

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

- Bryce, James

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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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 the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Noonan, Peggy

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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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

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Nathan, George Jean

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Cameron, W. J.

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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A politician is a man who understands government and 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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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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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.