Motivational Quotes

Politics

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

- Waugh, Auberon

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Horace

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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

Platen

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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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 doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Bush, George

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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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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Roche, John P.

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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

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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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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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

Taft, William Howard

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

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

Cary, Joyce

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Broun, Heywood

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

Dane, Frank

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

39.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Aristotle

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Seneca

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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

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.