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).
anti-Semitism has sometimes masqueraded as a disdain for identity politics.
President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.
My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
Politics is our responsibility before the history and mankind since the very beginning
Politics sometimes plays strange tricks on you. “We were surprised, just like everyone else.
I've always been distant from politics. I'm extremely apolitical.
Thanks Diane. I hope we can all agree that this debate should be about Syria not UK party politics
Politics is absolutely hopeless. That's why everything has gone wrong.
The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music . . . because music was my escape.