Politicians and Politics Quotes
169 quotations about Politicians and Politics
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
Politics is far more complicated than physics.
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.
What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
The first mistake in public business is going into it.
Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.
A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.