Motivational Quotes

Politics

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Best Quotes about Politics

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Albert Einstein

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

Truman, Harry S

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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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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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Margaret Cho

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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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

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rogers, Will

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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

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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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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

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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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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.