Politics quotes

“It wouldn't hurt you to sign a petition every once in a while!”
Kurt Fuller - Lennie

“If it wasn't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition.”

William Demarest - Skeeters - The Politician

“- Matt Brandon: If you're still sheriff after next election, it won't be on my vote!
- Sheriff Barney Riggs: Matt, the way I figure, you won't have any vote next election.”
Aldrich Bowker - Matt Brandon
Roger Imhof - Sheriff Barney Riggs

“I can't understand your politics, but I appreciate your integrity.”

Aiden Grennell - Chaplain at Lincoln Jail

“In politics, my dear, everybody counts.”

Paul Everton - Governor Mountford

“- Kenny O'Donnell: You trade our missiles in Turkey for theirs in Cuba, they're gonna force us into trade after trade, until finally, a couple of months from now they demand something we won't trade, like Berlin, and we do end up in a war. Not to mention that long before that happens this administration will be politically dead.
- Robert F....” (continue)(continue reading)
Kevin Costner - Kenny O'Donnell
Steven Culp - Robert F. Kennedy

“You find an edge, you gotta exploit that shit. That's why y'all sent all them motherfuckin' teenagers to Iraq. Die over some motherfuckin' oil money. Send the motherfuckin' CIA up in the hood with all the fuckin yayos. Slangin' in the hood man. It's the same shit in politics.”
Warren Beatty - Jay Bulworth

“- Boss Tom Prendergast: I've got a job for you.
- Harry S. Truman: Well, that's mighty nice of you. What's the job, dog-catcher?
- Boss Tom Prendergast: How would you like to run for Congress?
- Harry S. Truman: Well, Jesus Christ and General Jackson. The answer's yes.”
Pat Hingle - Boss Tom Pendergast
Gary Sinise - Harry S. Truman

“My father, gentlemen, claims that the government has neither wisdom nor humanity. I will then consider it my duty as my father's son to bring both wisdom and humanity to the United states' Congress. I thank you for your blessing, father.”
Aidan Quinn - Alfred Ludlow

“There are but two choices: he would get into bed with either Spain or France.”

Geoffrey Rush - Sir Francis Walsingham

“My business was with his wounds, not his politics.”

Errol Flynn - Peter Blood

“- Vincent Mancini: Don Lucchesi, you are a man of finance and politics. These things I don't understand.
- Don Licio Lucchesi: You understand guns?
- Vincent Mancini: Yes.
- Don Licio Lucchesi: Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.”
Andy Garcia - Vincent Mancini
Enzo Robutti - Don Licio Lucchesi

“Searching for ETs in this political environment is a tough sell.”
Ron Silver - Phil Gordian

“- Ted: Take these ants. In the U.S. view, a small group, or cadre, of fierce red ants have taken power and are oppressing the black ant majority. Now the stated U.S. policy is to aid those black ants opposing the red ants in hopes of restoring democracy, and to impede the red ants from assisting their red ant comrades in neighboring ant...” (continue)(continue reading)
Taylor Nichols - Ted Boynton
Pep Munné - Ramone

“You're dead and you're still into party politics?”

Juliet Stevenson - Nina

“- Ali: How is Britain justified in holding India?
- Aziz: Unfair political question!”
Art Malik - Ali
Victor Banerjee - Aziz

The "voice of the people"? There is no such thing! You've got 240 million voices all yellin' for something different. The only thing you all seem to agree on is you don't want higher taxes. "The voice of the people" my fanny!
Jack Lemmon - President Russell P. Kramer

“I admire that honesty, Natalie, that's a noble quality. Never lose that, because it often disappears with age, or entering politics.”
Robin Williams - Mrs. Doubtfire

“How did I end up with a kid on the other end of the political spectrum? How did I fail?”
Alan Alda - Bob

“- G.P. Myerson: Just call that real estate dame and tell her to rent it out.
- Mrs. Myerson: Yes dear, immediately.
- G.P. Myerson: Tell her no kids, no pets, no democrats.”
Ned Beatty - G.P. Myerson
Anne Haney - Mrs. Myerson

“- Reporter: Senator, do you plan to make rap a regular part of your campaign?
- Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth: A part of my campaign? Now that just sounds insane!”
Warren Beatty - Jay Bulworth

“President Nixon has announced that he will address the nation on the Water Gate case within the next few days. The speech will be Mr. Nixon's first comments since May on the scandal which has resulted in resignations and nearly paralyzed the White House staff. It has also led to a tense confrontation, and perhaps a constitutional crises, with...” (continue)(continue reading)

“- Jim Garrison: I can't believe they killed him because he wanted to change things. In our time. In our country.
- X: Well, they've been doing it all through history. Kings are killed, Mr. Garrison, politics is power, nothing more!”

Kevin Costner - Jim Garrison
Donald Sutherland - X

“I don't see playing politics with the truth.”
Robert Redford - Henry Brubaker