Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Politicians

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.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer—that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul—politics does the same thing for the body.
Joyce Cary (1888–1957) English Novelist, Artist

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.
Marshall Mcluhan (1911–80) Canadian Writer, Thinker, Educator

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
Richard Nixon (1913–94) American Head of State, Lawyer

In politics… shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) French Historian, Political Scientist

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
Abba Eban (1915–2002) Israeli Diplomat, Politician

In politics, people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
Cecil Parkinson (1931–2016) British Politician

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.
Robert Ringer (b.1979) American Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker, Author

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.
John Jay Chapman (1862–1933) American Literary Critic, Essayist

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.
P. J. O’Rourke (1947–2022) American Journalist, Political Satirist

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.
Meg Greenfield (1930–99) American Editor, Journalist, Socialite

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai Stevenson (1900–65) American Diplomat, Politician, Orator

It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751) English Politician, Philosopher

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
Jesse Jackson (b.1941) American Baptist Civil Rights Activist, Minister

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American Head of State

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.
Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.
Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they’ve been appointed and thinking they’ve been anointed.
Claude Pepper (1900–89) American Politician

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German Poet, Writer

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) American Head of State

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.
Harold Macmillan (1894–1986) British Head of State

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
Hubert Humphrey (1911–78) American Head of State, Politician

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.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–73) American Head of State, Political leader

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British Head of State

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.
Ross Perot (1930–2019) American Businessman

Politics is not an exact science.
Otto von Bismarck (1815–98) German Chancellor, Prime Minister

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