Quotes about politics

The purpose of war is to support your government’s decisions by force.

Robert A. Heinlein

Any government strong enough to give you what you want, is a Government strong enough to take everything you have!

Thomas Jefferson

I feel the denial of gay marriage sends a prejudice message. Our youth deserve a fair and hopeful future with government that values us equally.

Lady Gaga

I find comfort in the fact that the longer I’m in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that striving for power and rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition, and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience.

Barack Obama

We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it’s zero. But that’s where at least we need the private sector to play a big role.

Bill Gates

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

Napoleon

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln

The more I see of politics… the more I wonder what in the world any man would ever want to take it up for. Then some people wonder why the best men of a community are not the office holders.

Will Rogers

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

Robert A. Heinlein