Top Ten Quirky Quotations About Politics

The Top Ten

1 If voting changed anything they'd abolish it. (Ken Livingstone)

2 I am a Marxist: of the Groucho tendency. (Anonymous)

3 Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. (Henry Brooks Adams)

4 Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. (Sir Winston Churchill)

5 My policy on cake is still pro having it and pro eating it! (Boris Johnson)

6 The duty of an Opposition is very simple... to oppose everything, and propose nothing. (Lord Derby)

As for one thing I know, sitting in opposition makes you free of any worries. You just have to oppose, which humans probably love to do.

7 A really great statesman doesn't allow himself to be photographed in a bathing suit. (Adolf Hitler, on Mussolini)

8 M is for Marx, and movement of masses, and massing of arses, and clashing of classes. (Cyril Connolly)

9 It's important to realize that I was black before the election. (Barack Obama)

10 A political culture that has no time for lunch is no culture at all. (Andrew Marr)

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