Benefits Quote by Henry Adams

It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't…

— Richard Ingrams

It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold…

— Jeremy Corbyn

A minister is supposed to be there to remind his permanent officials that they work for the rest of us. If, instead, he becomes…

— Daniel Hannan

The British are a people who are generally happy, under normal circumstances, to trust politicians to tell us the truth and to leave them…

— Gina Miller

“The parliamentary democracy we have adopted involves the British perversity of electing a legislature to form an executive: this has created a unique breed…

— Shashi Tharoor

Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to…

— Tony Benn

There's no pleasing the British, or winning their favor. They simply hate politicians. All politicians. Hatred goes with politicians like mint sauce with lamb.…

— A. A. Gill

There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology,…

— L. Neil Smith

No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

— Henry F. Ashurst

“Politics is about power and patronage, and ministerial positions are won not just on the basis of competence but also in recognition of a…

— Sanjaya Baru

The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for…

— Mark Twain

“THE British foreign minister,”

— Laurent Binet