Famous Quotes

"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."

Harold MacMillan on Politics

More quotes about Politics

• "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

  John F. Kennedy on Politics

• "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

  Mark Twain on Politics

• "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

  Plato on Politics

• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

  Milton Friedman on Politics

• "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

  Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Harold MacMillan

• "I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."

• "In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."

• "I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."

• "It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter."

• "At home, you always have to be a politician when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."