Politics quotes

“Politics is deliberately making things better for some people by deliberately making them worse for others.”
Alexander Siddig - Ruben Oliver

“For the poor, there are only two ways to get to the top, crime or politics.”
Adarsh Gourav - Balram

“You should make me your campaign manager. I was born for politics. I have great hair and I love lying.”
Chelsea Peretti - Gina Linetti

“I’m choosing to make a film that’s fundamentally political, but not everything I do is political because I’m Black.”
John David Washington - Malcolm

“You can murder a liberator, but you can’t murder liberation. You can murder a revolutionary, but you can’t murder revolution. And you can murder a freedom fighter, but you can’t murder freedom!”
Daniel Kaluuya - Fred Hampton

“I’m going to die for the people, because I live for the people! I live for the people, because I love the people!”
Daniel Kaluuya - Fred Hampton

“Anywhere there’s people, there’s power.”
Daniel Kaluuya - Fred Hampton

“America’s on fire right now. And until that fire is extinguished, don’t nothing else mean a damn thing. Imagine what we could accomplish together. We can heal this whole city.”
Daniel Kaluuya - Fred Hampton

“This movement that we are in is called The Struggle. Because we are fighting for our lives!”
Kingsley Ben-Adir - Malcolm X

“Right now, it takes about 6 months exposure to social media for the average person to become hopelessly radicalized. ”
Laurence Fishburne - Narrator

“When we walked in this morning, they were chanting that the whole world is watching. If we leave here without saying anything about why we came in the first place, it’ll be heartbreaking.”
Jeremy Strong - Jerry Rubin

“We want to underscore again, that we’re coming to Chicago peacefully, but whether we’re given permits or not, we’re coming.”
Eddie Redmayne - Tom Hayden

“We don’t need politicians, we’ve all got iPhones and computers, right? So any decision that has to be made, any policy, we just put it online. Let the people vote–thumbs up, thumbs down, the majority wins. That’s a democracy. That’s a–that’s an actual democracy.”
Jason Flemyng - Jack Napier

“Let me tell you how this city is run, you stupid mick. We serve the rich, and in return they raise us above the primordial filth. And God help us if we don’t keep our end of the bargain.”
Ted Levine - Chief Thomas Byrnes

“Men, good or bad, do not follow what they don’t respect.”
Ted Levine - Chief Thomas Byrnes

“Politics is about divisions. Wherever you come in on the subject, there are divisions.”
Vanessa Redgrave

“Cultural change always precedes political change.”
Tessa Thompson

“- Col. Mathieu: It's not warriors we need.
- Journalist: Then what?
- Col. Mathieu: Political will, which is sometimes there and sometimes isn't.”
Jean Martin - Col. Mathieu

“I belong to an unlucky generation, astride between two worlds and ill-at-ease in both. And what is more, I am completely without illusions. Now, what would the Senate do with me, an inexperienced legislator who lacks the faculty for self-deception, an essential requisite for wanting to guide others. No, I cannot lift a finger in politics. It...” (continue)(continue reading)
Burt Lancaster - Prince Don Fabrizio Salina

“It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.”
Barkhad Abdi

“I could write a reboot sequence and shut down the entire system. And at that point... you could encode a new president.”
William Fichtner - John Carlyle

“- Joanne Herring: Why is Congress saying one thing and doing nothing?
- Charlie Wilson: Well, tradition mostly.”
Julia Roberts - Joanne Herring
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson

“You are, all of you, amateurs. And international affairs should never be run by gentlemen amateurs. Do you have any idea of what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The days when you could just act out of your noble instincts, are over. Europe has become the arena of realpolitik, the politics of reality. If you like: real...” (continue)(continue reading)
Christopher Reeve - Jack Lewis

“If dad's a liberal Democrat, then you'd have to say mom is the one thing more extreme. She's a guilty liberal Democrat.”
Natasha Lyonne - DJ

“- Philip Kimberley: I was going to get a Cabinet post. I might even be Prime Minister by now.
- Boris Medvachian: If you should go back to England now, you'll not get five years in the House of Commons, you'll get probably thirty years in Brixton jail.”
Sir Michael Caine - Philip Kimberley
Morteza Kazerouni - Boris Medvachian