Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

- Mcewan, Ian

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Paul Valery

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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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

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Will Rogers

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Hattersley, Roy

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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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

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

Roche, John P.

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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

Aristotle

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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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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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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.