Quotes about politics
529 quotes from 258 people
I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.
Donald Trumpborn 1946Speech at campaign rally (23 January 2016), Sioux Center, Iowa.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957The Mass Psychology of Fascism, Preface to the Third Edition (August 1942)
Aneurin Bevan1897–1960In Place of Fear (1952), p. 81
Vladimir Putinborn 1952A plea for caution from Russia, The New York Times, (12 September 2013) / Also published in the Guardian (12 September 2013)
Adolf Hitler1889–1945Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, Liberty magazine (9 July 1932)
Howard Zinn1922–2010A People’s History of the United States (1980; 2003), Chapter 24. The Coming Revolt of the Guards
Julius Evola1898–1974Speech when on trial in 1951 for glorifying fascism, quoted by E. Christian Kopff in the foreword to Evola’s work A Traditionalist Confronts Fascism, xxii–xxiii
David Graeber1961–2020Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Twelve, “1971–The Beginning…”, p. 391
Gerald Ford1913–2006Remarks in the U.S. House of Representatives in an effort to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (15 April 1970); recorded in the Congressional Record, vol. 116, p. 11913 and.
Iain Banks1954–2013Transition (2009), Chapter 13 (p. 326)If you ever injected truth into politics you’d have no politics.
Will Rogers1879–1935Syndicated column, “A Few Shots of Scopolamin” (15 July 1923)
Harry Blackmun1908–1999Concurrence/Dissent in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, 492 U.S. 490 (1989), at 538 and 560.- PKPaul Krugmanborn 1953“Is Free Trade Passé?”, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Autumn, 1987)
Benito Mussolini1883–1945“The Doctrine of Fascism”, June 1932. Quoted in Paul O’Brien, Mussolini in the First World War: The Journalist, the Soldier, the Fascist. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928)