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).
A woman needs to be interested in politics, whatever her party, for the good of the country.
In politics there is nothing like kgosikgolo we are all equal.
TV-based politics is to political action as watching ER is to saving someone in distress.
Remember, the centre of our national life is not politics or economy but Dharma.
"Politics is a kind of engineering isn't it. With people as your raw material."
I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.
I invest in people — be it politics or science. It's what I do.
Without Stalin's politics, we would never have achieved anything, we would all have died.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
We mean by "politics" the people's business — the most important business there is.
A wise man once said, "never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment."
There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.