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).
Give women their rights in intellectual life, in the world of politics, and in social activities!
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
If you’ll forgive me, sir, physics is not politics. You can’t make things happen by trying harder.
Politics is the art of the possible, Captain Pa. When you play at our level, grudges cost lives.
Politics is life is art is life is politics. It's all interwoven, like a whāriki, like a mat.