Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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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

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

Plato

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Benn, Tony

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

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.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Churchill, Winston

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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.

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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

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard