Motivational Quotes

Politics

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Pell, Claiborne

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.

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

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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

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 is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Lowman, Hariold

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

Noonan, Peggy

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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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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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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

Byrne, Robert

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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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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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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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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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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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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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Fredrich

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres