194 Quotes filtered by politics
Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.
Lord Melbourne 01/12/1841
Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.
Neil Kinnock
Category: Truth
They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine.
Michael Heseltine 04/1990
Category: Enemies
If the tide is running with you, you can do no wrong, and if it is running against you, you can do no right.
Walter Elliot
Category: Events
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli
Category: Conviction
Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
John Major 1992
After an egg has splattered his suit during the election campaign.
Category: Election Campaigning, Demonstrations
There are three golden rules for Parliamentary speakers. Stand up, speak up and shut up.
James Lowther 1919
Category: Speechmaking
A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party.
Winston Churchill
Category: What is a Political Party?, Politicians (as a species)
Political skill is the ability to foretell what is going to happen...and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it did not happen.
Winston Churchill
Category: Politics is...
Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.
Lord Rosebery
Category: Politics is...
The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most vaulable argument in modern politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst
On the use of violence to promote the Suffragettes' cause.
Category: Suffragettes, Violence
You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex.
David Lloyd George 1911
Category: Class, Men & Chauvenism
Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.
David Penhaligon
Category: Politics is...
I've spent my life fighting the Germans and fighting the politicians. It is much easier to fight the Germans.
Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
Category: Germany, Politicians (as a species)
I don't think modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?
Edward Heath 1988
Category: Modesty
If politicians lived on praise and thanks, they'd be forced into some other line of business.
Edward Heath
Category: Politicians (as a species)
