Politics Quotes

Ponzi schemes don’t trickle down, they siphon up.

~ Heather Marsh

A voteless people is a hopeless people.

~ Amelia Boynton Robinson

True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.

~ J.s.b. Morse

There’s nothing like a friendly handshake to establish social cooperation, but the bonobo handshake takes erotic politics to a whole new level.

~ Dr Susan Block

We are naked, but we think we are not; we are wrong, but think we are correct. We are misled but we think we are properly guided. We think we have leaders but in reality we do not. What we have are tyrants.

~ Nilantha Ilangamuwa

If you want to denounce impunity then you have to start with denouncing the impunity that the regime enjoys.

~ Nilantha Ilangamuwa

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

~ Charles Dickens

Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom isn't a static point. It's spectrum from absolute to none at all, and is usually inversely proportional to safety.

~ M.l. Wulff

Monsters always make more trouble before they die.

~ Melinda Gebbie

We are the dead . Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone.

~ George Orwell

There is no politically neutral fence available for us to sit on, and our attempts to do so have the consequence (intended or not) of supporting the existing political system.

~ Anne Kearney

To crank up a noisy bad stance out in a place like San Francisco and start yelling about “getting things done in Washington” is like sitting far back in the end zone seats at the Super Bowl and screaming at the Miami linebackers “Stop Duane Thomas!

~ Hunter S. Thompson

The enemy was not the Klan but the inside-outside lock that racism and classism had on the minds of the people: It operated from the inside through self-hate and self-doubt, and from the outside through the police, carnivorous landlords, and the welfare system.

~ Junius Williams

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

~ Paul Hawken

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

~ Saul D. Alinsky

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.

~ Alan Ryan

It seems to be Latin American destiny to always have the United States say 'amen.

~ Warren Eyster

It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.

~ Glenn Greenwald

Our laws are like the software that runs our country. All the laws for a country, together, are called its legal code, just like computer software is written using code.

~ Liz Long

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.

~ Stephen Colbert

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.

~ Stephen Colbert

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

~ Glenn Greenwald

The New START accord cuts the strategic nuclear arsenals on each side to 1,550 warheads. Can any of its critics make a case that our security would be imperiled if, the very next day, Obama and Medvedev made moves to take the levels down to 1,000—then to 500?If so, come show us the math. If not, it may be time to stop making arms control so politically complicated—time to stop letting arms control get in the way of disarmament.

~ Fred Kaplan

A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.

~ Glenn Greenwald

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

~ Gore Vidal

Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists.

~ Stephen Colbert

To those who will decide if he should be tried for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' -the House of Representatives-And to those who would sit in judgment at such a trial if the House impeaches -the Senate-And to the man who would preside at such an impeachment trial -the Chief Justice of the United States, Warren Burger-And to the nation...The President said, 'I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the American people elected me to do for the people of the United States.'- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

~ Carl Bernstein

With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that the greatest threat to American freedom is the United States government.

~ Michelle Templet

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

~ Stephen Colbert

I was born in the house my father built.

~ Richard M. Nixon

The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the hierarchy of laws. In one situation, the population is regimented into acquiescence. In the other, the population voluntarily establishes a contract with Parliament. For this reason, one is called a regime and the other, a government. Martial law rests on the sanction of force and not on the sanction of law.

~ Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

A regime that can suspend or abrogate the constitution and run the country on its whims and caprice should be ashamed of bringing on its lips the word law. It is like prescribing a punishment for adultery after raping the country. It is like saying that Holy Quran is suspended nobody can escape from the Hadees.

~ Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

~ Will.i.am

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Politics is show business for ugly people.

~ Paul Begala

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

~ Richard M. Nixon

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

~ Kathryn Bigelow

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

~ Thomas Paine