“Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
More from Charles de Gaulle on Politics
“Since a politician never believes what he says he is surprised when others believe him.”
“In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.”
“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.”
“In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.”
Others on Politics
Otto von Bismarck
9 quotes“Politics is the art of the possible.”
H. L. Mencken
6 quotes“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
Ronald Reagan
6 quotes“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”
Tocqueville
5 quotes“In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to p...”
Henry Adams
4 quotes“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Margaret Thatcher
4 quotes“What Britain needs is an iron lady.”
George Orwell
4 quotes“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.”
FDR
3 quotes“Presidents are selected, not elected.”
Mahatma Gandhi
2 quotes“I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend i...”
John le Carré
2 quotes“Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to d...”
Laurence Peter
2 quotes“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean...”
Ken Follett
2 quotes“Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.”