Politics Quotes
The list of top contributors is odd: Benito Mussolini has the most entries, then Disraeli, with a Nigerian governor, Bernard Crick and Jean Chrétien behind them. It reflects what Wikiquote editors chose to collect, not a ranking of who said it best.
The better-sourced lines are drier. Edmund Burke, in 1770, dismissed the cant of “Not men, but measures.” Stanisław Jerzy Lec’s Unkempt Thoughts (1957) has the shortest joke on the page, “a Trojan horse race.” Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary (1911) calls politics a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
Three well-known lines are flagged misattributed: “Politics is the art of the possible” (Franklin), a remark about playing your cards face upwards (H. G. Wells), and “politics have no relation to morals” (Machiavelli).
In politics, you live by the sword, and you die by the sword.
We want to come out of the vicious circle of unhealthy politics.
In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt: it breeds votes.
What’s coming is reality. Politics has nothing to do with reality!
I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.
Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.
“That doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense.”
“Welcome to politics.”
In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty.
Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.