The commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcasses of old policies.

-of Salisbury
  Speech, Hatfield, 25 May.

   The view of history that we get through the kitchen window is a more gentle view, not of war and politics, but of familyand communityand sharing.

-Child,Julia McWilliams
  On studying cookbooks dating back to the1400s in the Library of Congress. In Memory and Imagination, PBS  TV, 15  Aug. Chinese poet and civil servant about whom very little is known. He  wrote  a  series  of  three  poems  on  his  separation  from  his wife, the result of a posting to Beijing.

There are no true friends in politics.We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

-Clark, Alan Kenneth McKenzie
  Diary entry, 30 Nov.

Safe is spelled D-U-L-L. Politics has got to be a fun activity.

-Clark, Alan Kenneth McKenzie
  On being selected as parliamentary candidate for Kensington and Chelsea, 24  Jan. In the Daily  Telegraph, 25  Jan.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

-Clausewitz, Karl von
  Vom Kriege, bk.8, ch.6, section b. The phrase is commonly rendered'War is the continuation of politics by other means.'

If something makes you cry, you have to do something about it.That'sthe difference betweenpolitics and guilt.

-Clinton, Bill (William)
On what makes a liberal. Quoted in Meredith Oakley On the Make (1994).

Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.

-Connolly,James
  Socialism Made Easy.

Ireland is one of the few countriesöperhaps the lastöwhere the boundaries between politics and art have never been fixed.

-Dangerfield, George
  The Strange Death of Liberal England.

   One golden rule for people who want to get on in politics is to keep their traps shut in August.

-Deedes,William Francis Deedes, Baron
  In The Mail on Sunday, 22  Aug.

Politics is too important to be left to the politicians.

-de Gaulle, Charles
Atrributed.

This is about more than our politics and our laws. This is about who we are, how we carry ourselves.

-Dewar, Donald Campbell
  Speech at the official opening of the Scottish Parliament, 1  Jul.

Politics are much discussed, so are banks, so is cotton. Quiet peopleavoid the question of the Presidency†the great constitutional feature of this institution being, that directly theacrimonyof the last election is over, the next one begins.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
  American Notes.

Thepractice of politicsintheEast may be defined byone wordödissimulation.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Contarini Fleming, pt.5, ch.10.

It seems to me a barren thing this Conservatismöan unhappy cross-breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Coningsby, bk.3, ch.5.

I am neither a Whig nor aTory. My politics are described in one word, and that word is England.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Speech, House of Commons.

Finality is not the language of politics.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Speech, House of Commons, 28 Feb.

England is unrivalled for two thingsösport and politics.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

   Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

-Doctorow, E(dgar) L(awrence)
  In the International Herald Tribune,1 Oct.

When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian; and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchillöwhether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains, quite simply, a great man.

-Elton, Sir Geoffrey Rudolph
  Political History, ch.2.

There is more politics in football than in politics.

-Eriksson, Sven Goran
  In Varsity, 23  Jan.