194 Quotes filtered by politics
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)
Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.
Denis Healey
Category: Politicians (as a species)
Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.
Michael Foot
Category: Politicians (as a species)
It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.
Anthony Eden
Category: Power
Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.
Tony Benn 07/11/1967
Category: Class
Honourable Members were keen to have more trains so long as the new lines did not run through their constituencies.
David Amess 19/12/1990
Category: Not In My Back Yard, Railways
Bonar Law never led his Party. He was always looking over his shoulder to see if he was being followed.
Lady Violet Bonham Carter 02/11/1964
On Andrew Bonar Law
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about), Leadership
I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. and I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land...So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.
Martin Luther King 03/04/1968
He was killed only a year later.
Category: Fear
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of human talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exceptuion of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1962
Addressing Nobel Prize winners.
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Boasting
He always played the game, and always lost it.
Anonymous
Said of Austen Chamberlain
Category: Politics is..., Ruthlessness
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.
Adlai Stevenson 1956
He was defeated in 1952 and 1956. How funny....
Category: Modesty
After all, it's not every man who nearly becomes Prime Minister of England.
R A Butler 10/01/1957
After being passed over for PM
Category: Prime Minister (Office of), Modesty
There's a lot of bleeding idiots in t'country and they deserve some representation.
Bill Stones
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Politics is...
Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman 11/09/1906
Category: Appearance
It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary to tell the whole truth.
Arthur Balfour
Category: Truth
Actually, I vote Labour, but my butler's a Tory.
Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1945
To a Tory canvasser
Category: Class, Canvassing
