Motivational Quotes

Politics

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Arbuthnot, John

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Benn, Tony

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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

Mark B. Cohen

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fredrich

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kissinger, Henry

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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.