Top 500 Politics Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Joe Biden

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Lord Randolph Churchill

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

— Jay Leno

356. “Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.”

— Leon Trotsky

357. “Politics is applied biology.”

— Ernst Haeckel

358. “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

359. “Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.”

— Anna Funder

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

— Will Rogers

361. “I’ve been to 57 states.”

— Barack Obama

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

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Leon Trotsky

364. “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

365. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

367. “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

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

— Robert Cray

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

— Alastair Reynolds

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

— Jonathan Edwards

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

372. “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

373. “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

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

— James A. Garfield

375. “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

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

— Henry Clay

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

— Barbara Jordan

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

379. “Even the President needs passion.”

— Rod Stewart

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

— Jethro Tull

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

— Bob Seger

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

— Morton Blackwell

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

— William Kennedy

384. “I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”

— Charles de Gaulle

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. “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

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

— Dorothy Parker

388. “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

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

— Lee Greenwood

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

— Lil' Kim

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Justinian I

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Emma Goldman

395. “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

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

397. “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

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

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

400. “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