Top 500 Politics Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.”

— John D. Rockefeller

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

253. “Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.”

— Helen Keller

254. “Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.”

— Paul Wellstone

255. “And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

256. “I’m just a socialist at heart.”

— Ted Turner

257. “The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

258. “Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.”

— Saint Augustine

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

— Stokely Carmichael

260. “Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.”

— Billy Bragg

261. “If you begin by saying, ‘Thou shalt not lie,’ there is no longer any possibility of political action.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Ron Paul

263. “If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our Democracy; Tonight is your answer.”

— Barack Obama

264. “The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.”

— Bob Dylan

265. “If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.”

— Walter F. Mondale

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

— Jonah Goldberg

267. “Nihilism is best done by professionals.”

— Iggy Pop

268. “No one is exempt from the call to find common ground.”

— Barack Obama

269. “Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.”

— Bob Dylan

270. “We must consult our means rather than our wishes.”

— George Washington

271. “No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.”

— William Cowper

272. “And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you’re inside.”

— Stephen King

273. “The dead should not rule the living.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Jimmy Carter

275. “Always attack, Never defend.”

— Paul Begala

276. “Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.”

— Saint Augustine

277. “He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.”

— Napoleon

278. “Don’t be afraid to see what you see.”

— Ronald Reagan

279. “The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.”

— Bob Dylan

280. “Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.”

— Carl Schmitt

281. “A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”

— Aristotle

282. “Truth between candid minds can never do harm.”

— Thomas Jefferson

283. “In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

284. “Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

285. “As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.”

— Leon Trotsky

286. “A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.”

— Nelson Mandela

287. “Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.”

— Noam Chomsky

288. “You can’t become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.”

— Bernie Sanders

289. “Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.”

— John Nance Garner

290. “There’s another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.”

— Glenn Frey

291. “The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

292. “There must be no compromise with slavery – none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

293. “I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.”

— Joseph de Maistre

294. “Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

295. “A week is a long time in politics.”

— Harold Wilson

296. “Change we need.”

— Barack Obama

297. “I know he’d be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.”

— John Denver

298. “When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring.”

— Farkas Bolyai

299. “They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.”

— Herman Melville

300. “We believe in Sarva Pantha Sambhav. We believe ’the truth is one, there are ways to reach it.”

— Narendra Modi