Quotes About Politics

Edward Seymour says, 'You should have been a bishop, Cromwell.' 'Edward,' he says, 'I should have been Pope.

The main thing is, the constraints have come off style. What we are saying now is that the Revolution does not proceed in a pitiless, forward direction, its politics and its language becoming ever more gross and simplistic: the Revolution is always flexible, subtle, elegant.

Vadier (on Danton): "We'll clean up the rest of them, and leave that great stuffed turbot till the end." Danton (on Vadier): "Vadier? I'll eat his brains and use his skull to shit in.

Sometimes,' he says, 'I think it would save time and work if all the interested parties came to the council, including foreign ambassadors. The proceedings leak out anyway, and to save them mishearing and misconstruing they might as well hear everything at first hand.

CAMILLE DESMOULINS: For the establishment of liberty and the safety of the nation, one day of anarchy will do more than ten years of National Assemblies.

And indeed, who can doubt that everything would be different and better, if only England were ruled by village idiots and their drunken friends?

What was England, before Wolsey? A little offshore island, poor and cold.

And the more the king snips and carps, the more do his petitioners seek out the company of Cromwell, so unfailing in his amiable courtesy. At home, Jo comes to him looking perplexed. She

And Louis is weak. Let him give an inch, and some Cromwell will appear.

But just as everything was going along politely, quietly and wonderfully — in poured Citizen Danton and his crew.

At the front, people die for their mistakes. Why should politicians be more gently treated? They made the war. They deserve a dozen deaths, each of them. What can we try them for, except for treason, and how can you punish treason, except by death?

What's ink in Whitehall is blood in the borderlands, what's a quibble in the law courts is a stabbing in the streets.

The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes:

the English will forgive a king anything, until he tries to tax them.

Henry looks irritated. He should not have to manage this. Cromwell is supposed to manage it for him. Ease out the Boleyns, ease in the Seymours. His business is more kingly: praying for the success of his enterprises, and writing songs for Jane.

The Commons. God rot them. ... They never think higher than their pockets.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

The great story… is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for President.

Politicians for own profit call for Bandh of entire city and state. #anshmovie