Politics quotes

“And so if you elect me governor, I promise to take care of California the same way I take care of my own family; with compassion, caring, kindness, and most of all, with an interest in everyone. My friends... California is my family!”
Ryan O'Neal - Bill Gluckman

“- Hannah Warren: Christ, five million cigarettes are murder on the lungs.
- Bill Warren: When you were younger you were the healthiest girl I knew. What happened?
- Hannah Warren: With Nixon in the White House, good health seemed to be in bad taste.”
Jane Seymour Fonda - Hannah Warren
Alan Alda - Bill Warren

“- Thomas Jefferson Johnson: Terry, tell me something. With all this money coming in from both sides, how does anything ever get done?
- Terry Corrigan: It doesn't. That's the genius of the system.”

Eddie Murphy - Thomas Jefferson Johnson
Kevin McCarthy - Terry Corrigan

“There are always two occupations open to those who have failed at everything else: school teaching and politics.”

Louis Jean Heydt - Mentor Graham

“- Browning: Are you in organized crime?
- Bart: I'm in Parliament.
- Browning: Six of one.”
Chevy Chase - Browning
Omar Sharif - Bart

“This isn't about terrorism, it's about justice. It's about reminding you people of something you find politically convenient to forget.”
Ed Harris - General Francis X. Hummel

“- Joanne Herring: May I ask what it is that I've done to make you dislike me, Mr. Avrakotos?
- Gust Avrakotos: I like you just fine, Mrs. Herring, it's just been my experience that when people with money and too much free time get involved in politics, pretty soon, I forget who it is I'm supposed to be shooting at.”
Julia Roberts - Joanne Herring
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Gust Avrakotos

“Politics is a very peculiar thing, Woodrow. If they want you, they want you. They don't need reasons anymore... they find their own reasons. It's just like when a girl wants a man.”

Harry Hayden - Doc Bissell

“I always say: Never discuss religion or politics over dinner. Bad for the digestion.”

Arthur Dignam - Beowulf

“- Thomas Jefferson Johnson: I've got to do something to help these people.
- Celia Kirby: Don't tell me you're actually developing a conscience.
- Thomas Jefferson Johnson: God I hope not, it's gonna be a fuckin' nuisance in Congress.”
Eddie Murphy - Thomas Jefferson Johnson
Victoria Rowell - Celia Kirby

“I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.”
William S. Burroughs - Tom the Priest

“- Peter Appleton: I thought this was a democracy.
- Leo Kubelsky: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, they're all just pieces of paper with signatures on them. And you know what a piece of paper with a signature is: a contract. Something that can be renegotiated at any time. Just so happens that the House un-American activities...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jim Carrey - Peter Appleton
Allen Garfield - Leo Kubelsky

“Politics. Where greed wears the mask of morality.”
Steve Martin - Clouseau

“In George Bush's America the poor were not a priority. And after September 11th correcting America's social problems took a back seat to fear, panic and a new set of priorities.”
Michael Francis Moore - Himself

“Until I attain my majority, the regent is the political leader of Tibet. You should have requested an audience with him to discuss these important matters of the world. My experience of such things is limited. I am a simple Buddhist monk. All I know is the scripture and the words of Lord Buddha.”

Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk - Dalai Lama, 14 Years Old

“You think you've beaten the political system because you're hiding out at the bottom of it.”
Kurtwood Smith - Carson

“As you well know, I stand for nationalism, law and order, and economic prosperity. More importantly, I stand for the church... and a peaceful Salvador!”
Tony Plana - Major Max

“Bob Roberts is Nixon, only he's shrewder, more complicated, this Bob Roberts. Now here is a man who has adopted the persona and mindset of a free-thinking rebel and turned it on itself. The Rebel Conservative! That is deviant brilliance. What a Machiavellian poser.”
Lynne Thigpen - Kelly Noble

“Bob Roberts is yet another of that faction that lives to destroy whatever good came out of the 60s, to rewrite the history of that important period. A period where the American people actually were informed and aware, and realized that they had a voice. They demanded that a war end.”
Lynne Thigpen - Kelly Noble

“The Congressman has never been to rehab. They don't serve whisky at rehab.”
Shiri Appleby - Jailbait - Charlie's Angels

“I've had speechwriters write for me all of my career and advisors telling me what positions to take. I can't even remember why I wanted to get into politics to begin with. I think it's because my mom wanted me to, to show my dad any idiot could do it.”
Dennis Quaid - President Staton

“Fuck politics. We're here. All the rest is bullshit.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Alan Troy

“What President wants to be in office when it comes crashing down around him?”
Arliss Howard - John C. Calhoun

“- Jack Fate: By the way, which side of the political fence are you on?
- Desk Clerk: I do not belong to any political party, sir. I guess you could call me... a feminist.”
Bob Dylan - Jack Fate
Tracey Walter - Desk Clerk

“I am embarrassed to admit that I was under the misconception that our Executive and Judicial Branches were separate.”
Morgan Freeman - Theodore Joadson