Top 500 Politics Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.”

— Morton Blackwell

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

— Jethro Tull

403. “Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.”

— Abbie Hoffman

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

— Lee Greenwood

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

406. “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

407. “Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.”

— Arvind Kejriwal

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

— Charles de Gaulle

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

— Bob Seger

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

— Bill Maher

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

— William Kennedy

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

413. “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

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

— Alan Moore

415. “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

416. “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

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

— Nancy Pelosi

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

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ann Coulter

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

— Aneurin Bevan

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

— Greg Gutfeld

422. “Imperialism is da woist thing I ever hoid!”

— Karl Marx

423. “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

424. “Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.”

— Soong May-ling

425. “It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.”

— Tacitus

426. “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”

— Benito Mussolini

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

— Charles I of England

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

— John F. Kennedy

429. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

431. “The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

432. “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

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

— Henry Demarest Lloyd

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

— Peter Schiff

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Russell Kirk

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

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Napoleon

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

— William T. Sherman

440. “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

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

— Daniel Radcliffe

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

— John Adams

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

445. “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

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

— Randy Travis

447. “Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.”

— Thomas More

448. “I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.”

— Bob Dylan

449. “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

450. “Finality is not the language of politics.”

— Benjamin Disraeli