Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Rogers, Will

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Will, George F.

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

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

Cooper, James F.

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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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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Heine, Heinrich

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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

Seneca

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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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 organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Plato

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De