Motivational Quotes

Politics

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Politics

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Mark B. Cohen

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Horace

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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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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

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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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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 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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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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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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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Broun, Heywood

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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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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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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

Alfred E. Newman

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

Cameron, W. J.

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.