Motivational Quotes

Politics

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Platen

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

10.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Churchill, Winston

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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

Macmillan, Harold

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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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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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

Seneca

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.