Quotes about politics

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Benjamin Disraeli

An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.

Nelson Mandela

There’s a simple solution to our traffic problems. We’ll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.

Will Rogers

We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

Abraham Lincoln

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

George Bernard Shaw

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Will Rogers

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

Che Guevara

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

Plato

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Michelle Obama