(72 quotes found)
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”
Margaret Thatcher
“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.”
Henry Kissinger
“In my country we go to prison first and then become President.”
Nelson Mandela
“A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy”
Benjamin Disraeli
“I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.”
Corazon Aquino
“War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means.”
Karl von Clausewitz
“Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.”
Lester B. Pearson
“Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.”
Max Weber
“In America there are so many ways to make a living that a man usually doesn't turn to politics until he has failed at everything else.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.”
David Lloyd George
