Motivational Quotes

Politics

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

- Greenfield, Meg

Best Quotes about Politics

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Benn, Tony

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

Noonan, Peggy

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Marquis, Don

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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

Will, George F.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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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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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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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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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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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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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