Politics Quotes

Politics plays an important role in any country so we also need some quotes related to poetry. Here we gathered some political quotation of famous people.

  Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Emma Goldman

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.
P. J. O'Rourke

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas Sowell

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston Churchill

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O'Rourke

Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson Mandela

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Milton Friedman

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
Charles W. Pickering

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston Churchill

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. Fields

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry A. Kissinger

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Harry S. Truman

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.
Mitt Romney

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. Truman

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
Dick Gregory

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Carter Glass

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
John F. Kennedy

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Jimmy Carter

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil Gibran

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O'Rourke

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert Byrne

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D. Brandeis

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson