Top 500 Politics Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.”

— Tupac Shakur

402. “I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.”

— Aneurin Bevan

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

— Jethro Tull

404. “A funny thing about tolerant people? They’re really only tolerant when you agree with them.”

— Greg Gutfeld

405. “Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”

— Oscar Ameringer

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

407. “The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

408. “It’s time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.”

— Hillary Clinton

409. “I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.”

— Bill Maher

410. “Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.”

— Marya Mannes

411. “We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.”

— Bertolt Brecht

412. “Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.”

— Peter Schiff

413. “If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.”

— Russell Kirk

414. “Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.”

— Hannah Arendt

415. “Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.”

— Henry Demarest Lloyd

416. “Our masters have not heard the people’s voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”

— Alan Moore

417. “I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

418. “I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

419. “We are soldiers of the cross, we’ve been found to reach the lost.”

— Randy Travis

420. “Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history’s pocket change. Courage is history’s true currency.”

— Charlton Heston

421. “We can’t socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.”

— Ronald Reagan

422. “Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don’t know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?”

— Alan Jackson

423. “What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.”

— Toni Morrison

424. “Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.”

— Charles I of England

425. “The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

426. “I’m glad I’m blind and can’t see it.”

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Bob Dylan

428. “I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it.”

— Paul Krugman

429. “If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.”

— William T. Sherman

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

— Roger Hodgson

431. “All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.”

— Alain Badiou

432. “I’d have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I’d ban the ones made in China.”

— Hank Williams, Jr.

433. “In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.”

— Eric Ambler

434. “All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.”

— John Adams

435. “The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

436. “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

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

— Martha Gellhorn

438. “No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.”

— Pope Pius XI

439. “Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.”

— Jean Baudrillard

440. “As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.”

— Ann Coulter

441. “I didn’t know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.”

— Bob Dylan

442. “Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.”

— Saul D. Alinsky

443. “Peace is a process, a way of solving problems.”

— John F. Kennedy

444. “How can a president not be an actor?”

— Ronald Reagan

445. “Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

446. “Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.”

— Frantz Fanon

447. “They wanted me to be a Washington.”

— Napoleon

448. “Hell is full of high court judges.”

— Sting

449. “A man who tells you to follow him, will turn his followers into his company. While a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers.”

— Suzy Kassem

450. “Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.”

— James Brown