Top 500 Politics Quotes (2024 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 is 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. “My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Cedric Price

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

— Robin Williams

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

— Benjamin Franklin

12. “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

13. “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

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

— Richard M. Nixon

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

— Mark Twain

16. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Ayn Rand

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

— Frank Herbert

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

— Immanuel Kant

21. “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

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

— Joseph Sobran

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

— Russell Kirk

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

— Joseph de Maistre

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

— Peter Gabriel

26. “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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27. “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

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

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Sun Tzu

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

— Ronald Reagan

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31. “Politics have no relation to morals.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Edward Kennedy

34. “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

35. “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

36. “The Lord’s our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.”

— Tom Lehrer

37. “Presidents are selected, not elected.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

38. “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

40. “I’d rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don’t want, and get it.”

— Eugene V. Debs

41. “Experts are just trained dogs.”

— Albert Einstein

42. “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

43. “A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”

— Barack Obama

44. “Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.”

— Thucydides

45. “If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialist.”

— Friedrich August von Hayek

46. “Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.”

— Hillary Clinton

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47. “The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it.”

— Aneurin Bevan

48. “Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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49. “I hate money and Jews.”

— Karl Marx

50. “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