Politics quotes
199 politics quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Blaze
“- Gov. Earl K. Long: What's bothering you?
- Blaze Starr: There's a lot of men who'd like to spend an afternoon with me, but apparently you're not one of them. I do not like to be left in the car like soiled merchandise. And I don't think a proper introduction is asking too much.
- Gov. Earl K. Long: A man in public office has to be discreet in...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Trumbo
“- J. Parnell Thomas: Mr. Trumbo, are you now, or have you ever been a member of the communist party?
- Dalton Trumbo: Am I accused of a crime?” - From the movie: Parkland
“- Marguerite Oswald: I am responsible for two presidents.
- Robert Oswald: I'm sorry?
- Marguerite Oswald: Kennedy and now President Johnson. I'm not even a Democrat.” - From the movie: Midnight Express
“Good morning, my American friend. It will be trouble if you go this way. A good Turk always walks to the right! Left is communist! Right is good. You see, you must go the other way. The other way is good!”
- From the movie: Conspiracy
“Politics is a nasty game. I think soldiering requires the discipline to do the unthinkable and politics requires the skill to get someone else to do the unthinkable for you.”
- From the movie: Blue Collar Comedy Tour
“Some states are trying to abolish the death penalty... my states puttin in an express lane.”
- From the movie: American Dreamz
“These days, I have not time for rallies or politics.”
- La trovi in Actors and Politics
“Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.”
- From the movie: Bullets or Ballots
“I've had that attitude because half the commissions were nothing but political sops thrown to the public to keep them quiet.”
- From the movie: L.A. Confidential
“Edmund, you're a political animal. You have the eye for human weakness, but not the stomach.”
- From the movie: Lord of War
“Bullets change governments far surer than votes.”
- From the movie: Elysium
“I'm not interested in your little ideas. I'm interested in something much larger. This habitat is dying. There is a political sickness inside of it. A tumor that needs to be removed. You and your company are in need of revenue... that is dying up. So... you built the torus. Can you override the servers and place a new president in power?”
- From the movie: Trumbo
“They're Nazis. They're just too cheap to buy the uniforms.”
- From the movie: Schindler's List
- From the TV Series: Battlestar Galactica
“- Admiral William Adama: Politics. As exciting as war. Definitely as dangerous.
- President Laura Roslin: Though in war, you can only get killed once. In politics it can happen over and over.” - From the movie: Once Upon a Time in America
- From the movie: Warm Springs
“- Louis Howe: Why are you a Democrat?
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Democratic Party is the party of the people, and I'm a man of the people.
- Louis Howe: You're a Roosevelt. Since when does a Roosevelt know about people?” - From the movie: Red Tails
“Politics is the art of postponing a decision until it is no longer relevant.”
- La trovi in Actors and Politics
“I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.”
- From the movie: Mindwalk
“- Jack Edwards: It's the art of bringing people to agree on a certain course of action. If that course of action succeeds, the people are satisfied. If not, they're not. It's as simple as that. If it works, it's good. Period.
- Thomas Harriman: Isn't that exactly what you said 'why politics doesn't work anymore'? That politics, you said, needed...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Killing Fields
“- Jon Swain: If the going gets rough, I heard our best bet's the French embassy.
- Sydney Schanberg: Who told you that?
- Jon Swain: The British embassy.” - From the animation: Madagascar
“- Julien: Whatever happened to the separation of the classes?
- Maurice: I'm sure this whole democracy thing is just a fad.” - From the movie: Sahara
“- Dirk Pitt: What would you do if you were about to be exposed as the biggest polluter in history?
- Al Giordino: I don't know. Run for president?” - From the movie: My Fellow Americans
“Well, as usual, the Republican comes up with a plan while the Democrat just aimlessly wanders in the woods.”
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