Top 500 Politics Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”

— Albert Camus

352. “Politics is applied biology.”

— Ernst Haeckel

353. “If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.”

— Jay Leno

354. “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

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

— Alastair Reynolds

356. “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

357. “If God is on our side, he’ll stop the next war.”

— Bob Dylan

358. “It would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.”

— Dan Quayle

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

— Barbara Jordan

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

361. “The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.”

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Jonathan Edwards

363. “The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”

— Karl Marx

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

— Lord Randolph Churchill

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Robert Cray

367. “Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block the hall.”

— Bob Dylan

368. “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

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

— Richard M. Nixon

370. “Even the President needs passion.”

— Rod Stewart

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

— James A. Garfield

372. “Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.”

— Morton Blackwell

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

— Henry Clay

374. “Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don’t overdo it.”

— William Kennedy

375. “My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.”

— Bob Seger

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

— Lil' Kim

377. “We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans.”

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

378. “I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.”

— Daniel Webster

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

— Leon Trotsky

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

— Winston Churchill

381. “I’ve been to 57 states.”

— Barack Obama

382. “If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?”

— Will Rogers

383. “The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it’s under control.”

— Jethro Tull

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

— Emma Goldman

385. “The flag still stands for freedom and they can’t take that away.”

— Lee Greenwood

386. “Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

387. “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

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

389. “If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.”

— Amartya Sen

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

— Calvin Coolidge

391. “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

392. “Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don’t agree with you.”

— Ken Livingstone

393. “I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth – then shut up.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

394. “Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.”

— Winston Churchill

395. “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

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

— Justinian I

397. “A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.”

— Dorothy Parker

398. “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

399. “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

400. “Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.”

— Nancy Pelosi