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).
I see politics as an important tool for getting into governance.
Appointive positions serve as an entry point for women in politics.
Women should not wait to be invited into politics; they should prepare themselves and participate.
Politics comes with its trials, but our focus remains unwavering.
Public affairs journalism is a great laboratory for studying politics.
We cannot continue to pretend that art and politics are separate in Nigeria.
I am neither Whig nor Tory. My politics are described by one word, and that word is ENGLAND.
The fundamental question of politics has always been whether there should be politics.