When
THEIR LIPS
MOVE
A LOT HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT POLITICIANS; SOME OF IT COMPLIMENTARY, BUT MOST OF IT ACCURATE.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practising politicians.
POLITICS ARE VERY MUCH LIKE WAR. WE MAY EVEN HAVE TO USE POISON GAS AT TIMES.
A parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
THE LONGEST SUICIDE NOTE IN HISTORY.
The ego has landed.
IF THE WORD ‘NO’ WAS REMOVED FROM THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, IAN PAISLEY WOULD BE SPEECHLESS.
If there is one truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
HE KNOWS NOTHING; AND HE THINKS HE KNOWS EVERYTHING. THAT POINTS CLEARLY TO A POLITICAL CAREER.
Healey’s first law of politics: when you’re in a hole, stop digging.
I am humble enough to recognise that I have made mistakes, but politically astute enough to have forgotten what they are.
DEMOCRACY MEANS SIMPLY THE BLUDGEONING OF THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE.
When I want a peerage, I shall buy it like an honest man.
WHEN GREAT MEN GET DRUNK WITH A THEORY, IT IS THE LITTLE MEN WHO HAVE THE HEADACHE.
The best time to listen to a politician is when he’s on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he’s exhausted. Then he doesn’t lie.
I REMAIN JUST ONE THING, AND ONE THING ONLY, AND THAT IS A CLOWN. IT PLACES ME ON A FAR HIGHER PLANE THAN ANY POLITICIAN.
There’s nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MISFORTUNE AND A CALAMITY IS THIS: IF GLADSTONE FELL INTO THE THAMES, IT WOULD BE A MISFORTUNE. BUT IF SOMEONE DRAGGED HIM OUT AGAIN, THAT WOULD BE A CALAMITY.
You slam a politician, you make out he’s the devil… But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
Politics
IS A BLOOD
SPORT.
POLITICS IS THE ART OF LOOKING FOR TROUBLE, FINDING IT WHETHER IT EXISTS OR NOT, DIAGNOSING IT INCORRECTLY, AND APPLYING THE WRONG REMEDY.
The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
WE ALL KNOW THAT PRIME MINISTERS ARE WEDDED TO THE TRUTH, BUT LIKE OTHER WEDDED COUPLES THEY SOMETIMES LIVE APART.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don’t agree; if you agree with him he’s a statesman.
ANYBODY WHO ENJOYS BEING IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS PROBABLY NEEDS PSYCHIATRIC CARE.
You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.