Top 500 Politics Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.”

— Jay Leno

352. “In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin’s Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.”

— Garry Kasparov

353. “I’ve been to 57 states.”

— Barack Obama

354. “It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.”

— John Adams

355. “God of ages, Lord of Time, mine is the right to be wrong.”

— Jethro Tull

356. “Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.”

— Henry Clay

357. “Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.”

— Mark Twain

358. “To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

359. “Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.”

— Winston Churchill

360. “Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.”

— Howard Zinn

361. “Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They’re bound to be deeply confused, at best.”

— Glenn Reynolds

362. “He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.”

— William Blake

363. “The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.”

— Gustave Flaubert

364. “Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

365. “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

— James Madison

366. “Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.”

— Tupac Shakur

367. “Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”

— Richard M. Nixon

368. “The respect that I have got is not for Narendra Modi or the PM of India. It is respect for the people of India.”

— Narendra Modi

369. “Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.”

— Robert Cray

370. “The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.”

— Leon Trotsky

371. “But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common...”

— Joe Biden

372. “Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”

— Ambrose Bierce

373. “Politics is applied biology.”

— Ernst Haeckel

374. “Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.”

— Martha Gellhorn

375. “If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.”

— Barbara Jordan

376. “Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.”

— Leon Trotsky

377. “Frankly, sharing a media market with Chuck Schumer is like sharing a banana with a monkey. Take a little bite of it, and he will throw his own feces at you.”

— Jon Corzine

378. “I’m sayin’, why spend mine when I can spend yours?”

— Lil' Kim

379. “The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.”

— Noah Levine

380. “In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest-without asking to be paid.”

— Chinua Achebe

381. “A city’s only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.”

— Alastair Reynolds

382. “I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.”

— Thomas Jefferson

383. “How right the working classes are in their “materialism.” How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!”

— George Orwell

384. “Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.”

— Calvin Coolidge

385. “Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

386. “I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there’s a deficit of more than three percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.”

— Warren Buffett

387. “It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

388. “He can’t even run his own life, I’ll be damned if he’ll run mine.”

— Jonathan Edwards

389. “I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.”

— Tom Clancy

390. “The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.”

— Bob Dylan

391. “Every society has the criminals it deserves.”

— Emma Goldman

392. “Now watch what you say or they’ll be calling you radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal.”

— Roger Hodgson

393. “There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

394. “Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

395. “I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.”

— James A. Garfield

396. “I have learned that one should say “Peace!” to those who shout their hatred for one’s being and presence or at one’s passage.”

— Tariq Ramadan

397. “Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.”

— W.H. Auden

398. “Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.”

— Justinian I

399. “Even the President needs passion.”

— Rod Stewart

400. “Thank God for the bomb. Nuke ya, nuke ya.”

— Ozzy Osbourne