Top 500 Politics Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”

— Ludwig von Mises

252. “The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.”

— Steve Jobs

253. “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

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254. “There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men. The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.”

— Adrienne Rich

255. “Have pity on a dinosaur.”

— Hank Williams, Jr.

256. “Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.”

— Voltaire

257. “Never judge a country by its politicians.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— Bob Dylan

259. “Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.”

— Aristotle

260. “Democracy can survive anything except Democrats.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— George Washington

262. “I’m just a socialist at heart.”

— Ted Turner

263. “Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

264. “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

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265. “No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.”

— John Adams

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Bob Dylan

268. “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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

— Napoleon

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

— Billy Bragg

273. “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

274. “The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.”

— Petronius Arbiter

275. “Nihilism is best done by professionals.”

— Iggy Pop

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

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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

— William Cowper

278. “The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.”

— Lord Randolph Churchill

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Carl Schmitt

281. “Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them’s really right, cause neither of them care.”

— Frank Zappa

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Stephen King

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

— Walter F. Mondale

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

— Thomas Jefferson

286. “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

287. “The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.”

— Richelle Mead

288. “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

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Bob Dylan

291. “Change we need.”

— Barack Obama

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

— Noam Chomsky

293. “The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.”

— Marilyn Manson

294. “Always attack, Never defend.”

— Paul Begala

295. “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

296. “We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.”

— Ronald Reagan

297. “These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.”

— Anthony de Mello

298. “Faith reminds us that change is always possible.”

— Jim Wallis

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

— John Nance Garner

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

— William Lloyd Garrison