Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Kissinger, Henry

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

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

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

Pepper, Claude D.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cameron, W. J.

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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 is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Aristotle

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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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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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

Arbuthnot, John

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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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.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Rogers, Will

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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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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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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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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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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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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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