Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
Indira Gandhi
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A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.
Lord Rosebery
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The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.
Lord Hailsham
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Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.
Keith Best 28/12/1991
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The only thing you can be certain about in politics is that you can't be certain about anything.
Tony Banks 10/04/1992
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Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.
Robert Rhodes James
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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
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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
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In politics some decit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.
Woodrow Wyatt 1973
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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
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He always played the game, and always lost it.
Anonymous
Said of Austen Chamberlain
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There's a lot of bleeding idiots in t'country and they deserve some representation.
Bill Stones
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In poltitics you get what you deserve rather than what you want.
Cecil Parkinson
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A week is a long time in politics.
Harold Wilson 1964
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We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.
Margaret Thatcher
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