Top 500 Politics Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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

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

— Alan Moore

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

— Jethro Tull

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

— Nancy Pelosi

405. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Aneurin Bevan

408. “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

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

— Greg Gutfeld

410. “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

411. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

413. “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

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

— Hannah Arendt

415. “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

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

— Bill Maher

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Henry Demarest Lloyd

419. “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

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

— Peter Schiff

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Russell Kirk

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

— Daniel Radcliffe

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

— Bob Dylan

425. “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

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

— Charles I of England

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

— Randy Travis

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

— Bob Dylan

429. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

431. “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

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

— William T. Sherman

433. “All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Roger Hodgson

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

436. “Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.”

— Gilles Deleuze

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

— Stevie Wonder

438. “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

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

— John Adams

440. “Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”

— Bertrand Russell

441. “Justice is the one thing you should always find.”

— Toby Keith

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

— Robert F. Kennedy

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

— Hank Williams, Jr.

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

— Pope Pius XI

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

— Martha Gellhorn

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

— Ann Coulter

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

— Frantz Fanon

450. “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