Quotes about politics
529 quotes from 258 people
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Responding to a claim that backing a nuclear test ban would cost him votes; as quoted in As We Knew Adlai: The Stevenson Story by Twenty-two Friends (1966), ed. Edward P. Doyle, p. 185Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894“Yoshida-Torajiro”, Familiar Studies of Men and Books, p. 175 (1902).
Sharon Stoneborn 1958The Washington Post (June 20, 2001)
Andrew Sullivanborn 1963“America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny” in New York Magazine (2 May 2016)
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag, Chapter VIIn context- Jonathan Swift1667–1745Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag, Chapter VIIIn context
It is a very great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa1910–1997Quoted in the U.S. Congressional Record, vol. 129 (June 27, 1983), p. 17319- Mother Teresa1910–1997Her Nobel Lecture given upon receiving the Peace Prize (December 11, 1979).
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Speech to members of the National Union of Townswomen’s Guilds, delivered at the Royal Albert Hall (May 20, 1965); as quoted in Why Women Should Rule the World, HarperCollins (2008), Dee Dee Myers, p. 227A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Speech at a Soviet Official banquet, St George’s Halls, the Kremlin (30 March 1987)- Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Speech to the American Bar Association (15 July 1985).