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).
When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.
What matters in politics above all, is not what one says, but what one does.
When people say that the Bible and politics don't mix, I ask them which Bible they are reading.
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
Anyone who cares about truth should avoid not politics, but Olympic lies.
A politics of struggle is rooted in values and vision, and above all trust.
Meena Agrawal:If my mother gets help from it, then I will enter politics.