Top 500 Politics Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one’s head.”

— Marie Antoinette

202. “In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”

— Toni Morrison

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203. “If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.”

— John Boyd Orr

204. “It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.”

— Charles de Gaulle

205. “My morals went when the president got oral.”

— Eminem

206. “Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.”

— Otto von Bismarck

207. “Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. Its why the whole world is falling apart.”

— Suzy Kassem

208. “To rule is easy, to govern difficult.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

209. “My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.”

— Liev Schreiber

210. “The creator’s concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite’s concern is the conquest of men.”

— Ayn Rand

211. “Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

212. “All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.”

— Mark Twain

213. “Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”

— Adam Smith

214. “Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.”

— Alan Moore

215. “Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.”

— George Orwell

216. “Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.”

— John Rawls

217. “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”

— George Orwell

218. “The government bugged the men’s room in the local disco lounge.”

— Don Henley

219. “First you win the argument, then you win the vote.”

— Margaret Thatcher

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220. “The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.”

— Otto von Bismarck

221. “Being free is a state of mind.”

— Lenny Kravitz

222. “People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.”

— Noam Chomsky

223. “Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody’s plan.”

— Bob Dylan

224. “Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.”

— Sting

225. “Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.”

— Jacob Appelbaum

226. “That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.”

— Noam Chomsky

227. “That’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody’s going to be against, and everybody’s going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything.”

— Noam Chomsky

228. “Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.”

— Calvin Coolidge

229. “I don’t want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.”

— Billy Graham

230. “The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.”

— Winston Churchill

231. “Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.”

— Milan Kundera

232. “An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.”

— Ron Paul

233. “How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

— Ronald Reagan

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234. “The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”

— Will Rogers

235. “When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as ‘enemies,’ it’s time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.”

— Molly Ivins

236. “There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

237. “It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.”

— Voltaire

238. “Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.”

— Albert Camus

239. “The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.”

— Eugene McCarthy

240. “Political power without economic power is sterile.”

— Louis O. Kelso

241. “I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.”

— Jonah Goldberg

242. “You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

243. “The ones that you’re calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.”

— Johnny Cash

244. “Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?”

— George Washington

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245. “The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.”

— Bernie Sanders

246. “There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.”

— Stokely Carmichael

247. “Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.”

— Tupac Shakur

248. “Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.”

— Albert Camus

249. “What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

250. “Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence...”

— Hillary Clinton

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