Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Clarke, James Freeman

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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

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

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

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

Benn, Tony

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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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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Tweed, Boss

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

Deighton, Len

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

Arbuthnot, John

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lowman, Hariold

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

Rostand, Jean

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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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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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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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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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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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood