Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

- Hijazi, Muhammad

Best Quotes about Politics

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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

Lowman, Hariold

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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.

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Pell, Claiborne

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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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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Benn, Tony

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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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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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Swift, Jonathan

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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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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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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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

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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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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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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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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