Quotes about politics

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

Charles Bukowski

And I’m not apolitical – I’m very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it’s nobody’s business unless you’re over at my house having dinner.

Tom Hanks

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government’s lust for rule and the subjects’ cowardice.

Plato

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves.

Calvin Coolidge

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Thomas Jefferson

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

Abraham Lincoln

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it’s extremely hard to block anything – extremely hard. You’ll never get perfect blocking.

Bill Gates

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

Josh Billings

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Buckminster Fuller