Motivational Quotes

Politics

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

- Clough, Arthur Hugh

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Bush, George

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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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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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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

Platen

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Churchill, Winston

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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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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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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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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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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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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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 are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Taft, William Howard

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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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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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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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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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill