Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Welles, Orson

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kissinger, Henry

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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

Plato

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

11.

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

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

15.

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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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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

Rogers, Will

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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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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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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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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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

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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Roche, John P.

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

40.

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

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Taft, William Howard

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

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

Field, Franklin

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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