Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is the science of urgencies.

- Parker, Theodore

Best Quotes about Politics

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Rogers, Will

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

Paul Valery

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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

Baudrillard, Jean

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bush, George

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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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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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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

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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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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Field, Franklin

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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 two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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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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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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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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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Seneca

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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