Politics Quote by Elizabeth Day

“Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can’t bother about where they’re going.”

— Anonymous

“Politicians did not represent the people who elected them.  They might have held onto the delusion that they served the public, but the only…

— Richard Stephenson

“At times a man must cut loose from his associates and stand alone for a great cause; but the necessity for such action is…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“They march in the streets and the classrooms and the courtrooms and the parliaments and the boardrooms, and we thought they would stop, but…

— Natalie Kyriacou

“Statesmen should remember that they have been elected to persuade and to lead, and not just to accept as fixed the momentary moods and…

— Stanley Hoffmann

“The general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behaviour of politicians.”

— T.S. Eliot

“When you listen to G. T. Stoop, you understand the importance of being a honorable person, you get charged to fight for the truth,…

— Joan Bauer

“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but…

— Ayn Rand

“Here I must add that, in each social crisis, of all scaffolds, the political one is the most abominable, the most fatal, the most…

— Victor Hugo

“The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible, but against…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Every town-gate and village taxing-house had its band of citizen-patriots, with their national muskets in a most explosive state of readiness, who stopped all…

— Charles Dickens

“Having now finished the work assigned me,” Washington solemnly said, “I retire from the great theatre of Action. . . . I here offer…

— Joseph J. Ellis