Political Motivations Quotes

Individuals move and shift from one party to another simply on their aspirations for office.

The BJP's decisions are never based on victory and defeat in elections.

Nothing is more fallacious than to expect to produce any valuable or permanent results in political projects by relying merely on the reason of men. Men are ... for the most part governed by the impulses of passion.

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.

Private grudges give rise to public measures. [Such matters] lie beneath the reach of ordinary historians.

So the Chinese have at last given us the grounds and the ‘incident’ which we have so long desired.

Many of these [big political] donors are my friends. Those people are not like charities ... They Want. These are total tough cookies. When they give millions and millions of dollars, they're not doing it for the good of the American Cancer Society. They're doing it for themselves.

I know that sometimes politics creates situations in which people want to say particular things for political reasons.

I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people.

The fact that no lynchings of negroes occur in States where the Republican party is in power warrants us in the belief that these crimes are committed for political reasons

The United States has launched airstrikes against ISIS. It's being called 'Operation Approval Ratings.'

I think people are just puzzled by why people where I'm from make the political choices sometimes that they do.

I can't understand why anyone would want to live the life of a politician if you can't say pretty much what you think. You are not in it for the money: there's unremitting pressure on your life, you give up so much of your privacy. It can only be because of the things you want to do and the things you want to say.

As a scientist, the starting point is always the facts of the matter, whereas often, in politics, the starting point is how does this play in the next election.

Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

Does one ever read a politician's books?

I do think that when we're looking at Putin's actions, we really need to look further into what his point is. Because I think there is a misconception that this is kind of reigniting the Cold War and Putin's a bully. And he's just, you know, sort of lashing out at Ukraine when actually I think that this goes much deeper to that.

Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby do they attempt to distract the public from pressing domestic matters, serve the overseas interests of U.S. investors, justify gargantuan military budgets, and present themselves as great leaders.

I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.

I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.

I think most politicians have almost no understanding of economics; otherwise, they wouldn't have become politicians.

The United States wanted to send its trained rebel groups to Syria to fight ISIS. Out of twenty-five hundred rebels they had trained, only seventy accepted to go to Syria to fight ISIS. Everybody else wanted to go to Syria to fight the government. So you've got to wake up and smell the coffee... The rebel groups have not fired a shot against ISIS.

Nations make wars; states make wars; and cultures make wars. We tend to conflate the three, but they are very different wars.