Motivational Quotes

Politics

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Carlyle, Thomas

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Cannon, Joseph

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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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.

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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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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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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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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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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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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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

Larry Hardiman

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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

Grant, Amy

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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

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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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.

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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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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