In politics, what's not reported might as well not have happened.
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).
This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.
I'm in politics to be a voice for people who don't have a voice.
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
Societies change through conflict and are managed by politics.
Three reasons why young people don't have to worry about their future: education, politics and me.
If you want politics as pantomime, I hear Clacton is nice this time of year.
It isn’t courtly politics if somebody doesn’t get a dagger in the back.
“The Center never said politics. It said leadership in public service.”
"Health systems must put people first, not institutions or politics."