Politics Quotes

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

John Adams

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Joseph Sobran

Politics when I am in it, makes me sick.

Edward De Bono

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

George Jean Nathan

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)