Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hattersley, Roy

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

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Quinton, John

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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

Dane, Frank

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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

Field, Franklin

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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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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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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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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.

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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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.