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).
This is modern, progressive politics reflecting our society.
It is hard not to find humour in Zimbabwe’s politics and current state of absurdity
In Rwanda, politicians go into politics to grab bread more than to serve citizens.”
Our politics is a field from which morality is completely exiled.
“Politics should be geared towards development and devoid of insults and acrimony.”
“Politics is also about making unpopular decisions because they are necessary in the long term.”
We keep speaking, we keep fighting. For truth. For justice. For change. No politics.
Politics is like market, as you are coming back, others are going.
Politics is a mandate borne out of one’s personal conviction that you can make a difference.
What are your words of encouragement to other women who might want to get into politics?