“I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.”
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).
"Equitable development must be driven by the community, not by politics"
My feminist politics evolved from childhood as I was raised in a family of strong women.
The women need more support in Nigerian politics as politics is seen as a "Man's World."
It is not the game of politics that is dirty; it is the player that can be dirty
[T]he basic factor in human affairs is not politics but race.
I have always been drawn to politics, but I pursued a career in the Foreign Service.
My 20 years in politics in Nigeria has not been for nothing, it has given me a lot of experience.
The commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.
I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.
People who played the politics of appeasement have ruined the country, not us.