1,008 Quotes Regarding Politics


No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
Emma Goldman

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Albert Pike

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Fidel Castro

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph Nader

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
Lady Bird Johnson

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas B. Macaulay

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Theodore White

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
Fidel Castro

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Russell Baker

The world is governed by opinion.
William Ellery Channing

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
Neal Barnard

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Leo Rosten

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
Louis D. Brandeis

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
Dan Quayle

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Herbert Hoover

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Daniel Webster

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
Sandra Day O'Connor