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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).

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Let me say that my primary concern in art, as in politics, is with the status and place of Afro-Americans in our country.

Carrie Mae Weems

The writer is more concerned with articulating issues than with doing politics.

Florent Couao-Zotti

It's a damned good thing to remember in politics to stick to your party and never attempt to buy the favor of your enemies at the expense of your friends.

Joseph Gurney Cannon

In a time of domestic crisis men of good will and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

John F. Kennedy

Radical and revolutionary movements seek not to revise but to revoke. The target of revocation should be obvious. The target is politics itself.”

Karl Hess

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

Peter Medawar

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Eugene McCarthy

Sunny ways my friends, sunny ways. This is what positive politics can do.

Justin Trudeau

Sure, politics ain't bean-bag. 'Tis a man's game, an' women, childer, cripples an' prohybitionists 'd do well to keep out iv it.

Finley Peter Dunne

I still have dreams. Politics without dreams – it would be a nightmare.

Donald Tusk

I don’t care about politics or the greater good or universal peace or whatever. I just want to be left in peace with books.

Genevieve Cogman The Dark Archive (2020)

I remembered that God did not create me inferior. I remembered just that politics is like marketing and women can sell better than men.

Christine Churcher

Salvini’s approach [to politics] is winning. Today, the revolution of common sense has begun.

Lorenzo Fontana

The basic way to correct politics is for the government itself to uphold the Constitution and conduct clean, honest governance.

Inejirō Asanuma

I have said and still say that the dirtiest jobs are coal and politics. One almost always gets one's hands soiled.

Teresa de la Parra

What a pleasant lot of fellows they are. What a pity they have so little sense about politics. If they lived North the last one of them would be Republicans.

Chester A. Arthur

Burke is so great because, almost alone in England, he brings thought to bear upon politics, he saturates politics with thought.

Matthew Arnold The Functions of Criticism at the Present Time (1864)

I have quietly said for years that Mitch McConnell is the most overrated man in politics— now I don't have to be quiet anymore.

Donald Trump

A man´s taste is formed more by his culture, his profession, and the period in which he is young than by his race or politics.

A. J. Liebling The Road Back to Paris (1988)

"I was glad to give up teaching, at least in London, glad to be rid of noise and violence and staff-room politics, and the constant fight to keep order."

P. D. James A Certain Justice (1997)

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