Edmund Burke Quotes

I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."

Politics are the divine science, after all.

For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.

Politics is different than business.

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill—little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Government is not an exact science.

No man can be a politician except he be first a historian.

I hold them [politics] to be subject to laws as fixed as matter itself, and to be as fit a subject for the application of the highest intellectual power.

I did not love politics. As a matter of fact, I hated politics. I loved governing which is … a different thing.

I studied political science at the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris.

In undergraduate school, I chose a career path that always leads to certain unemployment: I majored in politics and public affairs with a double-minor in philosophy and history.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't have ideas about. I would like to be able to since so many people discuss them, but I don't want to work at them. I don't think my ambition is that strong in that direction.

I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

Obviously I think politics is interesting and important and educational.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.