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).
Berlusconi [...] is to politics what Fede is to information.
The ex-communist is the problem child of contemporary politics.
In science, wherever politics got involved, the results were deplorable.
Being a woman, I wanted to be one of the first in politics to make a mark in Nigeria.
It’s the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa.
I learned selfless politics as the sacrificing of one’s self totally for one’s own country.
The only business in this country today which is lucrative is politics.