| The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long-run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. |
| Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. |
| The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one. |
| Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. |
| The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does. |
| Man is by nature a political animal. |
| Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. |
| If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim. |
| The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision. |
| I'd say it's pretty bleak if the choice is just between tragedy king Modiji and comedy king Rahulji. actor, on the presumed contest between Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi in the 2014 polls |