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).
Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business.
"Terrorism is a result of narrow minded politics and institutional support."*
The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.
There are dilettantes in human relationships just as there are, let's say, in politics.
Socialism is bad idea because it about power, which is the worst thing to be about in politics.
It is the responsibility of every citizen man or woman to participate in politics.
Politics are not only elections. Politics are also citizenship.
I do not like to leave my work and engage in partisan politics.