Top 500 Politics Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don’t know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?”

— Alan Jackson

452. “We can’t socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.”

— Ronald Reagan

453. “Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”

— Bertrand Russell

454. “Justice is the one thing you should always find.”

— Toby Keith

455. “Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.”

— Gilles Deleuze

456. “I’m glad I’m blind and can’t see it.”

— Stevie Wonder

457. “Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.”

— Henry Kissinger

458. “The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.”

— Frank Zappa

459. “Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It’s just ganging up against the weird kid, and I’m always the weird kid.”

— Penn Jillette

460. “Hell is full of high court judges.”

— Sting

461. “I’d have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I’d ban the ones made in China.”

— Hank Williams, Jr.

462. “The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

463. “All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.”

— Alain Badiou

464. “The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.”

— Huey Long

465. “Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

466. “Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.”

— Saul D. Alinsky

467. “Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.”

— Jean Baudrillard

468. “No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.”

— Pope Pius XI

469. “Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.”

— Frantz Fanon

470. “In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.”

— Eric Ambler

471. “Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

472. “When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”

— George Orwell

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473. “Revolutions are always verbose.”

— Leon Trotsky

474. “Actor of the low IQ, let’s hear your view.”

— Jethro Tull

475. “Life is politics, basically, but you don’t just go to a gallery and put the words ‘art’ and ‘politics’ on the wall.”

— Luc Tuymans

476. “A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’”

— William F. Buckley Jr.

477. “Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.”

— Thorstein Veblen

478. “We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?”

— Waylon Jennings

479. “The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.”

— Blaise Pascal

480. “Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.”

— Don Henley

481. “Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”

— Mark Twain

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482. “Just because I like to suck cock doesn’t make me any less American than Jesse Helms.”

— Allen Ginsberg

483. “Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.”

— James Brown

484. “A man who tells you to follow him, will turn his followers into his company. While a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers.”

— Suzy Kassem

485. “Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.”

— Milton Friedman

486. “Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.”

— Don Henley

487. “When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.”

— Friedrich August von Hayek

488. “The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.”

— Jill Lepore

489. “Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone’s labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.”

— Robert Nozick

490. “All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.”

— George F. Will

491. “There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.”

— Stephen Hawking

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492. “I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.”

— Henry David Thoreau

493. “Party is organized opinion.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

494. “It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

495. “The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.”

— Stanley Baldwin

496. “The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.”

— Tiffany Madison

497. “I’ve told you before and I’ll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

498. “I think I have done well, though I am abandoned, with the curse of Cain upon me.”

— John Wilkes Booth

499. “A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.”

— Walter Bagehot

500. “Pakistan’s foreign policy should be discussed on the floor of the Parliament, not behind closed doors.”

— Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri