Motivational Quotes

Politics

The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

- Mccarthy, Eugene J.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Heine, Heinrich

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Dane, Frank

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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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 am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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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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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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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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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

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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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.