Quotes about politics

Quotes about politics

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common --- they both should be changed regularly and for the same reason!

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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

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Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

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There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

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The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you are not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.

The Covert Comic

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And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

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Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Robert Orben

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My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Abraham Lincoln

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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

Ann Richards

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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

William S. Burroughs

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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.

Kurt Vonnegut

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The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

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To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

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To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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Douglas Adams, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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When I want to speak, nobody listens, when they want me to speak, I have nothing to say

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Groucho Marx

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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

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If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

Keith Richards, Keith Richards: In His Own Words

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

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All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

John Steinbeck