Brilliant Quote by George Washington

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

— Fawn M. Brodie

“Actuated by no personal motives, but moved only by high and great constitutional considerations; which I will not attempt to explain, for they are…

— Charles Dickens

“Now, are those engaged in the business of governing any different by nature from those they govern?” “Yes. They’re prideful and tend to sexual…

— Nick Harkaway

“Politics is a matter of desires and personal feelings or emotions, only parliament tries to bring reason into the state.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all…

— Jasper Fforde

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

— Barbara Jordan

[In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication…

— James Madison

People like passion in politics.

— Ed Gillespie

You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner motives drive…

— Paul Begala

“We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.”

— Woodrow Wilson

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

— Alexander Pope

“Almost all of you in this government are inwardly quite detached from what you outwardly claim to be doing,” True charged. “You’re putting on…

— Jack Pelham