Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Albert Einstein

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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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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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Margaret Cho

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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 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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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

Aristotle

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Kissinger, Henry