Top 500 Politics Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The best politics is right action.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

2. “Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.”

— Barack Obama

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3. “Politics and hypocrites are turning us all into lunatics.”

— Marvin Gaye

4. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”

— Aristotle

5. “Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.”

— Robin Williams

6. “My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.”

— Abraham Lincoln

7. “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”

— Mark Twain

8. “Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do?”

— Bob Dylan

9. “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

— John Steinbeck

10. “When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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11. “Technology is the answer, but what was the question?”

— Cedric Price

12. “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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13. “If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.”

— Tariq Ramadan

14. “Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.”

— George W. Bush

15. “I ascribe to Mark Twain’s theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.”

— Bill Hicks

16. “Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.”

— Richard M. Nixon

17. “Politics have no relation to morals.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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18. “You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

19. “Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama’s running so we all can fly.”

— Jay-Z

20. “When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”

— Abraham Lincoln

21. “You don’t make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.”

— Winston Churchill

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22. “When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.”

— Victor Hugo

23. “Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.”

— Bob Dylan

24. “For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”

— Noam Chomsky

25. “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”

— Frank Herbert

26. “There are men running governments who shouldn’t be allowed to play with matches.”

— Will Rogers

27. “Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.”

— Winston Churchill

28. “The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.”

— Lenny Bruce

29. “Never underestimate the ego of a politician.”

— Dan Brown

30. “To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.”

— Hubert H. Humphrey

31. “Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.”

— Jimmy Carter

32. “I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.”

— Ayn Rand

33. “Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?”

— Frank Herbert

34. “No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”

— Edward R. Murrow

35. “The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.”

— Thomas Sowell

36. “The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.”

— Immanuel Kant

37. “Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”

— Oscar Ameringer

38. “If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.”

— Joseph Sobran

39. “The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.”

— Russell Kirk

40. “Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.”

— Joseph de Maistre

41. “Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.”

— Peter Gabriel

42. “I don’t believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that’s what an artist is-a politician.”

— Toni Morrison

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43. “The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.”

— Arthur Koestler

44. “To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.”

— Henry Kissinger

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45. “Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”

— Sun Tzu

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46. “With freedom comes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual.”

— Ronald Reagan

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47. “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”

— Eric Hoffer

48. “Health care is a right, not a privilege.”

— Edward Kennedy

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49. “Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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50. “There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.”

— Ayn Rand