Politics Quotes
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All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.
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Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.
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The BJP decides its own policies.
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The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics.
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation, and advancement of one’s own culture and social organization.
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Neither India nor Russia perceives a threat from the strength of the other. Each sees a benefit for itself in the increased political and economic strength of the other.
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My poet’s heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.
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No one can be considered untouchable on political grounds.
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Indian democracy’s greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.
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India has never played politics with national security.
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For me, power was never an attraction.
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I am contesting elections since 1952, but never did I throw mud.
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Whatever understanding is reached with Pakistan has to be followed honestly, and everybody will have to rise above party politics and be actively committed to make India prosperous.
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Politics these days in no occupation for an honest man… neither educated nor honest, he has to be an ignoramus & a rogue.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Politics, these days, is no occupation for an educated man, a man of character. Ignorance and total lousiness are better.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
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War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass- crime perpetrated on the community of man.
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistrates in a state.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.
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Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.
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There’s lots about politics I don’t feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.
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Those who have no understanding of the political world around them have no right to criticize or complain.
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There is a better chance of seeing a camel pass through the eye of a needle than of seeing a really great man ‘discovered’ through an election.
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What luck for rulers that men do not think.
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The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
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No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.
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To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.
What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
The President’s post should not be politicized. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
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To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.
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Who cares about winning? We should focus on serving.
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Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
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If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
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The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.