Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Politics

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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

Albert Einstein

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

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

Will, George F.

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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.

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

Taft, William Howard

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

10.

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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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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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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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 irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

18.

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

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

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

Brown, Jerry

20.

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

Mark B. Cohen

21.

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

Cameron, W. J.

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

24.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

25.

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 Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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 no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Horace

31.

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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

33.

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

34.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

35.

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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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

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

41.

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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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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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII