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).
My only interest in remaining in politics is to bring in morality.
Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.
I want to bring into question those old assumptions about the character traits we want in politics.
Women have the power in politics because they have the numbers.
The Church must speak out on politics, otherwise she would betray the Gospel.
In the business of politics, not everybody will be on the same page.
To understand today’s politics one must always begin with yesterday’s economics.
It is Ekiti first before Nigeria.Every politics is local, every governance starts from the home.
I'm in politics to achieve what I believe is right; otherwise, I would have been content to dream.