Quotes about politics

Course, that’s the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

Will Rogers

Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.

Thomas Sowell

The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.

John F. Kennedy

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.

Walt Whitman

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

A government, founded on impartial liberty, where all have a voice and a vote, irrespective of color or of sex – What is there to hinder such a government from standing firm.

Frederick Douglass

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing – I went into politics. It’s practically the same thing.

Isaac Asimov

Government’s power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

Thomas Sowell

We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.

Margaret Thatcher

I don’t think I will ever write about politics or foreign policy. I feel like there is so much good writing in those areas that I have little to add. I also like to steer clear of writing about people whom I do not personally like.

Malcolm Gladwell