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).
Craxi's politics have the present, they have the future, they have eternity.
"The agrarian question remains real to people's politics in the twenty-first century."
Philosophy and politics, in a mix, in my view, tend to mutually destroy each other.
Don’t kid yourself, Friday; knowing too much is a capital offense. In politics it always has been.
Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant. The sharpest means would still be too mild.