Motivational Quotes

Politics

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

- White, Elwyn Brooks

Best Quotes about Politics

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dane, Frank

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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

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Alfred E. Newman

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Eban, Abba

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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