Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Dane, Frank

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

10.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

11.

The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

12.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

13.

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

Rostand, Jean

15.

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

Horace

16.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

18.

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

19.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

22.

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

23.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

24.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

25.

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

26.

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

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

27.

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

28.

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

29.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

30.

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

Kennedy, Joseph

31.

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

Kissinger, Henry

32.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

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

34.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

36.

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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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 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

39.

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

40.

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

41.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

42.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

43.

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

44.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

45.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

46.

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

47.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

48.

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.

49.

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

Huxley, Aldous