Quotes about politics
529 quotes from 258 people
You’ve got to be optimist to be a Democrat, and you’ve got to be a humorist to stay one.
Will Rogers1879–1935Good Gulf radio show (24 June 1934)I am neither Whig nor Tory. My politics are described by one word, and that word is ENGLAND.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881England and France; Or, A Cure for the Ministerial Gallomania (1832), p. 13He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Major Barbara (1905)Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev1894–1971Comment on the construction of a bridge in Belgrade (22 August 1963), quoted in Chicago Tribune (22 August 1963) “Khrushchev Needles Peking”If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
Art Buchwald1925–2007International Herald Tribune (24 May 1989).Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.
- Will Rogers1879–1935Daily Telegram #1355 (26 November 1930)
Mao Zedong1893–1976Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book), Chapter 9, originally published in the Problems of War and Strategy (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.
Winston Churchill1874–1965speech at Lord Mayor’s Luncheon, Mansion House, London, November 10, 1942
Thomas Sowellborn 1930The Thomas Sowell Reader, New York: NY, Basic Books (2011) p. 144, Forbes magazine, “The survival of the left” (Sept. 8, 1997)
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Johnson (Boswell) (1763)
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. III, Barbarians, Philistines, Populace
Fidel Castro1926–2016Statement of 1991, during the fall of USSR.
Vladimir Putinborn 1952Putin Retains Soviet Discipline While Steering Toward Reform (20 February 2000)
Peter Drucker1909–2005The Practice of Management (1954), p. 41
