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).
I'm interested in politics, but I'm out of politics. You know, I like to watch it.
.” (In Rwanda, politicians enter politics to get “bread” instead of serving citizens)
In response to the question, "What have you achieved in politics? Inonge Wina replied
Paurina Mpariwa responded to the question, "When did you join politics, and why?"
When you wear your Afro out, you are already starting your politics
[It is] rational pessimism that provides the strongest justification for a conservative politics.