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).
… politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?"
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
You shouldn’t go into politics just to prove yourself—skydiving would be an easier path.
An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.
If you want to understand the beliefs that are shaping global politics, read the Book of Revelation.
—If I ever get good at hospital politics, I think I shall start to hate myself.
"A depraved culture supports a depraved politics and vice versa."
To what extent may we expect to have the economics of fascism without its politics?