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).
'Because it's there' could never be enough of an explanation for entering politics. ...
Hope that the blades and daggers of politics can never break the bonds of our kinship.
People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.
When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called 'rent-a-spine'.
According to Mama, nine-tenths of King Arthur was questing and the other tenth was politics.
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.