Quotes about politics

I have rarely seen the government do anything that was effective.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

Joe Louis

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

Benjamin Disraeli

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

Aristotle

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting the government off your back, lowering the taxes and strengthening the military. Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air. I said to my friend, I said, ‘What party is he?’ My friend said, ‘He’s a Republican.’ I said, ‘Then I am a Republican.’

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.

Kurt Vonnegut

I am not the representative of guerrilla in this hemisphere. I would say that the representative would be Fidel Castro which was the leader of our revolution and who had the most outstanding role in the direction of the revolutionary struggle and directs the strategy of the Cuban government.

Che Guevara

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

George Bernard Shaw