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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).

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"You can never truly tell what will happen; the future is always in God's hands. As for whether I will join politics, you can never say never."

Joseph Yobo

For me, politics is personal, because it’s my family, and just being aware of my thoughts — are my thoughts productive?”

Dorothy Bush Koch

We thought that it was necessary to have a way of doing politics that looked at the objective that is the reconstruction of the dignity of the human being.

Florbela Malaquias Florbela Malaquias, first woman leader of an Angolan party, speaks of the importance of solidarity and of “humanizing so (2023)

I didn’t just watch (politics evolve).I participated in helping the change happen.

Polly Baca

“Disillusionment with politics is rife, and many democracies are sliding toward autocracy.”

Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar

I think of my visual work as an exploration of political epistemology: the politics of how we know what we think we know.

Trevor Paglen

You can quote me on this. Politics is really messy. All I want to do is just to save water.

Gina Lopez

"My commitment is to continue to inspire all Congolese women who are watching us and who believe in women's politics."

Clotilde Mutita Ngalula

"I am a compulsive reader... if I am not reading a novel on my phone, I am reading an article on politics or literature or other books."

Toni Kan

My politics are more in the personal acts performed in my work; the personal as political.

Billie Zangewa

“Wala akong pinaniniwalaan in politics. That’s it. Wala akong tiwala sa politics,” (“I don’t believe in politics. That’s it. I don’t trust politics.”)

Lyca Gairanod

No, I think you have to earn your way into politics. I don't think that anything is ever given to you.

George W. Bush

A nervous blonde nymphet who thought that politics was some kind of game played by old people, like bridge.

Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

I’m in politics to speak up for a Canada that takes risks, that stands up for what’s right. A Canada that leads.

Michael Ignatieff Canada in the World Speech, University of Ottawa (2006)

A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.

Max Frisch

Let politicians deal with politics. I will put effort into enhancing the dialogue between the Turkish and Armenian peoples.

Sebouh Chouldjian

Leaders of secular parties... have so far made no serious effort to understand the true nature of Muslim politics in India.

Hamid Dalwai

Let us conduct issue-based politics. Let us allow peace, love and unity to continue in our country.

Sibongile Mwamba GBM’s daughter Sibongile Mwamba advises Zambians against Experimenting with Leadership (2023)

Politics and elections were not a matter of life and death.

Vera Tembo Support fellow women – Former First Lady Vera Chiluba (2021)

Politics is an undefined career. You have to chart your own path as you learn on the job.

Sonia Birdi

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