194 Quotes filtered by politics
Actually, I vote Labour, but my butler's a Tory.
Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1945
To a Tory canvasser
Category: Class, Canvassing
In poltitics you get what you deserve rather than what you want.
Cecil Parkinson
Category: Politics is...
As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are soft-hearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 01/1941
Category: Conviction
It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke 1769
Category: Demonstrations, Welfare
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
Arthur Balfour 07/05/1926
Category: General Strike 1926, Class, Strikes
I never knew the lower classes had such white skins.
Lord Curzon
A remark made on a visit to the trenches during World War One when Curzon saw troops bathing in old beer kegs
Category: Class
I don't think that other people in the world would share the view that there is mounting chaos.
James Callaghan 10/01/1979
The Sun reported him as saying "Crisis, what crisis?"
Category: Crisis Management
All the world over I will back the masses against the classes.
William Ewart Gladstone 06/1986
Category: Class
It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.
Margaret Thatcher 25/02/1979
Category: Art of Government, Conviction
I am sure I can save this country and no one else can.
William Pitt 10/1756
To the Duke of Devonshire at the outbreak of the 7 Years' war with France
Category: Boasting
Margaret Thatcher has one great advantage - she is a daughter of the people and looks trim, as the daughter of the people desire to be. Shirley Williams has such an advantage over her because she's a member of the upper-middle class and can achieve the kitchen-sink revolutionary look that one cannot get unless one has been to a really good school.
Dame Rebecca West
To Jilly Cooper
Category: Appearance, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth there's hardly any difference.
Harry Truman 1962
Category: Politicians (as a species)
Each one of is has his portion of ego. At least one night I dreamed that the 22nd amendment has been repealed - and it wasn't wholly a nightmare.
Dwight D Eisenhower 13/05/1962
The 22nd amendment limits a President to serving two full terms.
Category: Presidency, The US (office of), Ego
A week is a long time in politics.
Harold Wilson 1964
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Politics is...
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy 20/01/1961
Category: Fear, Negotiation
Speak for England, Arthur.
Leo Amery 02/09/1939
To Arthur Greenwood as he rose to speak in the Commons the day before the outbreak of war.
Category: Speechmaking
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 04/03/1933
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Fear
Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter. A deep untuneable voice which, instead of modulating, he enforced with unnecsessary pomp, a total neglect of his person, and ignorance of every civil attention, disgusted all who judge by appearance.
Horace Walpole
On Lord North
Category: Appearance, Insults - General
