Top 500 Politics Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable – the art of the next best.”

— Otto von Bismarck

102. “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.”

— Pericles

103. “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”

— Plato

104. “After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”

— Cato The Elder

105. “Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.”

— Tony Benn

106. “My life needs editing.”

— Mort Sahl

107. “Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”

— Robert E. Howard

108. “The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.”

— Will Rogers

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109. “Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.”

— Bob Dylan

110. “Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.”

— Bruce Springsteen

111. “As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

112. “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”

— Karl Marx

113. “Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.”

— Frank Zappa

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114. “Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.”

— Edward Abbey

115. “Every socialist is a disguised dictator.”

— Ludwig von Mises

116. “What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.”

— John Diefenbaker

117. “Some leaders are born women.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

118. “When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other in order that the people may require a leader.”

— Plato

119. “Even when I was wrong, I got my point across.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

120. “Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.”

— John F. Kennedy

121. “I ain’t rich, but Lord I’m free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I’ll be.”

— George Strait

122. “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

123. “We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.”

— Otto von Bismarck

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124. “All rising to great places is by a winding stair.”

— Buddha

125. “Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”

— Thomas Mann

126. “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”

— Thomas Jefferson

127. “Total paranoia is just total awareness.”

— Charles Manson

128. “I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.”

— Tony Benn

129. “That we can be e pluribus Unum – out of one, many.”

— Al Gore

130. “I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.”

— Ronald Reagan

131. “Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

132. “If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.”

— Ronald Reagan

133. “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”

— Frederick Douglass

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134. “The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.”

— A. Powell Davies

135. “I’m on my knees begging, please come and save me.”

— Tupac Shakur

136. “Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.”

— Aristotle

137. “Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.”

— Jimmy Carter

138. “Freedom is participation in power.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

139. “Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you’ll still ‘beat the pack.’”

— Gerald R. Ford

140. “Never wound a snake; kill it.”

— Harriet Tubman

141. “I’m an idealist without illusions.”

— John F. Kennedy

142. “It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.”

— Abraham Lincoln

143. “The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.”

— Max Stirner

144. “There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.””

— Fulton J. Sheen

145. “I’m not cheap, you understand, I’m just a cut price person in a low budget land.”

— Ray Davies

146. “It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”

— Hubert H. Humphrey

147. “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

— Warren Buffett

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148. “One is only poor if they choose to be.”

— Dolly Parton

149. “We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.”

— Gore Vidal

150. “The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.”

— Theodore Roosevelt