This week each morning, we posted some of our favourite political quotes with the hope we might add a bit of levity to the daily barrage of news and nonsense from our country’s politicians. We hope you have enjoyed the morning coffee read – by George
- Politics is a game requiring great coolness. – Sir John A Macdonald
- Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong. – Sir John A. Macdonald
- Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. – John Kenneth Galbraith
- Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. – Lester B. Pearson
- The federal government’s trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone. – Tommy Douglas
- It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. – Albert Einstein
- The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. – John Jay Chapman
- There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. – Indira Gandhi
- Great obstacles make great leaders. – Cree leader Billy Diamond
- Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. – Jonathan Swift
- Politics, a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. – Ambrose Pierce
- Gratitude is not a normal feature of political life. – Lord Kilmuir
- There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible. – Sir Alec Douglas-Home
- Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight Eisenhower
- An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. – Simon Cameron
- The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. – P. J. O’Rourke
- There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail. – Will Rogers
- In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool. – Alma Guillermoprieto
- After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. – Cato the Elder
- We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. – Nelson Mandela
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