Quotes About Politics

Entonces no había periódicos, y las ideas políticas, así como las noticias, circulaban de viva voz, desfigurándose entonces más que ahora, porque siempre fue la palabra más mentirosa que la imprenta.

La moral política es como una capa con tantos remiendos, que no se sabe ya cuál es el paño primitivo.

Era aquello un nido, una hechura de políticos, de periodistas, de tribunos, de agitadores, de ministros, y daba gusto ver con cuánto donaire rompían el cascarón los traviesos polluelos.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head.

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.

Of all political curses the most terrible is an assembly that is but the instrument of a single man.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

England is governed not by logic but by parliament.

There is no act of treachery or mean-ness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour

Political institutions, founded on abstract rights and principles, are mere nullities.

The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews.

The English in politics are as the old Hebrews in religion, a favoured and peculiar people.