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  • Finality is not the language of politics.

    'Hansard' 28 February 1859
  • If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

    Trust   Witty   Freedom  
    In Ernest Mignon Les Mots du G‚n‚ral (1962) p. 67
  • Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

    War   Political   Cynical  
    Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books
  • Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

    Funny   Life   Sarcastic  
  • A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

    Men   Politics   Opinion  
    'Biographical Studies' (1881) 'The Character of Sir Robert Peel'
  • I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

    Funny   Witty   Regret  
  • A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

  • A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

    "A Politician’s Christmas Carol" by Tom Gerdy, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2012.
  • Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

    Letter to Edward Blount, 27 August 1714, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 1, p. 247
  • Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

    Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.271, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

    In B. Adler Churchill Wit (1965) p. 4
  • Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

  • Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

    "Chambers Dictionary of Political Biography". Book by John Ransley, p. 345, 1991.
  • Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

    Evil   Political   Wish  
    Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 56
  • I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

    Quoted in Clement Attlee, A Prime Minister Remembers (1961) See Briand 2; Clemenceau 4
  • There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

  • Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

    Lecture, 1938, in Selected Works (1965) vol. 2, p. 153
  • The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

    Country   Peace   Freedom  
    Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).
  • Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

    Years   Long   Greed  
  • Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

    Eye   Men   Office  
    Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.25, Modern Library
  • A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

    John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”
  • I am a very proud daughter. Obviously to be able to see this transpiring, to watch him achieve so much as a politician - and we're certainly not a family of politicians, and politics is certainly not our family business - it's been amazing.

    Source: www.businessinsider.com
  • The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

    Funny   Trust   Witty  
    Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1079, RosettaBooks
  • Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

    Change   Keys   Cities  
  • Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

    Life   Witty   Art  
  • When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

    Trust   Truth   Men  
    Remark to Baron von Humboldt, 1807, in Rayner 'Life of Jefferson' (1834) p. 356
  • Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

    Art   Freedom   Political  
    "Don't blame Alistair Darling. He's just the brush and bucket" by Andrew Rawnsley, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2008.
  • Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

    Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellanies, by Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Gay, &c. Prose miscellanies by Swift and Sheridan”, p.255
  • Under every stone lurks a politician.

    "Thesmophoriazusae". Play by Aristophanes, line 529-530, 411 BC.
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