Quotes and Sayings about Politics

War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

Odysseus in Troy

War

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

Mathematics

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Don Lucchesi in The Godfather - Teil 3

Money

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politics have no relation to morals.

Niccoló Machiavelli

Morality

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

Mark Twain

Honesty

You're in politics. You know that no one can claw their way to the top without getting a little dirt under their fingernails.

Victoria Leeds in Baywatch

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

Steve Largent

Statecraft is the art of attending to small matters as diligently as grand ones.

Ar-Pharazôn in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 Episode 4

Small Things

Someone once said that politics is little more than the systematic organization of hostilities.

Wilhuff Tarkin in Star Wars Books - Tarkin

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

Kit Harington

Politicians

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Andrew Jackson

Power

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

Ralph Nader

At the heart of all problems lies the politics of the country.

Arvind Kejriwal

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

Nigel Farage - July 2002

What is right and what is practicable are two different things.

James Buchanan

In politics, you need a feeling for what's possible and what's reasonable.

Helmut Kohl

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

Sargent Shriver

I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.

Nancy Pelosi

Women Women's Rights

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

Emmanuel Macron

Politicians

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson Senior

What we see before us is a politics devoid of kindness and truth... today, politics is not being used in the service of the people: it is being used to crush them, not to lift them up.

Rahul Gandhi

India

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

Studs Terkel

The happiness of society is the end of government.

John Adams

Society Governments

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Mao Zedong

War

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Napoléon Bonaparte

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People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

V in V for Vendetta

Democracy Governments

The day we stop believing democracy can work is the day we lose it.

Jamillia in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Democracy

Democracy isn't just there. We have to work for it together - every day.

Angela Merkel - October 2021, during the 31st Day of German Unity

Democracy German Unity 2021

These days, I look in the mirror and I have to admit, I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.

Barack Obama - White House Correspondents' Dinner 2013

Funny Politician Quotes

They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

Jacques Chirac

Dump-Quotes Funny Politician Quotes Mouth

Leno: "What's this thing with Trump and you? I don't get it, it's like me and Letterman - what has he got against you?"
Obama: "This all dates back to when we were growing up together in Kenya. We had constant run-ins on the soccer field."

Barack Obama - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, October 2012

Funny Politician Quotes

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

Art Truth Politicians

Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

Uncle Ben in Spider-Man

Power Responsibility Strength

Thor: "Do you see yourself above them?"
Loki: "Oh yes."
Thor: "Then you miss the truth of ruling, brother."

Thor in The Avengers

Governments

The economy is changing, the pace of change is accelerating, and what we’ve got to do is master those changes in order to make them work for us.

Pete Buttigieg - March 2019, via Twitter

Economy

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

Mort Sahl

Conservative

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Henry Kissinger

Corruption Politicians

I am in favour of a dictatorship.

Jair Bolsonaro - June 1993

Dictators & Autocrats

Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

War Warriors

The gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

Achilles in Troy

Life Death

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

Reason & Sanity Imagination

Cady: "Yeah, I like math."
Damian: "Eww. Why?"
Cady: "Because it's the same in every country."

Cady Heron in Mean Girls

Mathematics

He never asks a second favour when he's been refused the first.

Tom Hagen in The Godfather

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Greed Humanity Money

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

Lester B. Pearson

Peace

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Franklin D. Roosevelt - December 1941

World War II

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Niccoló Machiavelli

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