Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes About Politicians

Quotes about: Politicians

• Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Thinking, Impossible Situations, Too Late

• In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Promise, Politician, Endeavor

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge”

• Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, oncemore, they feel the eyes of an audience upon them. Their old passion for holding the centre of the stage guides their uncertain footsteps to where the footlights shine, and summons up a wintry smile when the curtain rises.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Passion, Eye, Shining

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.123, Regent College Publishing

• I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  War, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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