Political Turbulence Quotes

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

I think the randomness by Donald Trump's governing, by tweeting, sloganeering, attacking, will create great chaos in the entire market. I think people will have difficulties in predicting the future. I think capital will recede.

When my father was the Prime Minister, was there any terrorist activity in this country? The entire country was calm at that time.

It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

Political life loves some volatility.

In politics, you win and you lose. You come up in power, you go down; it's part of life.

The Ministers are like a flotilla broken up by a hurricane, the stricken ships run into each other, crash together and if they reach the port there is always a leader to blame, at least so it is believed. If a good Minister for one moment takes his eye off the tiller he is lost; envy clings on to his wreckage and the paid hacks try and sink him to the bottom.

Politics is cyclical.

In politics, you're like a toilet seat: you're up one day and down the next.

There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.

Political life is like a big wheel: constantly turning. At times you are up, at times down. But always, the wheel keeps moving.

I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to our Democratic principles, as long as elections have integrity, as long as we respect freedom of speech, freedom of religion, as long as there are checks and balances in our governments so that the people have the ability to not just make judgments about how well government is serving them but also change governments if they're not serving them well, then I have confidence that over the long term, progress will continue.

Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be.