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).
Your deplorable taste in politics aside, you’re an intelligent man.
Politics is everywhere. It’s in your shirt, it’s in your pants. It’s everywhere.
To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.
"Before joining politics, be sure the call of God is in your life and be ready to be accountable."
Thus may the first Principles of sound Politics be fixed in the minds of youth.
Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
"In politics, as Anatole France said, there are no traitors; there are only losers."