Politics Quotes
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Floating from old-timey radios and off the pages of banned books, these quotes changed history forever. Click on any politics quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
"And they brought us whole binders full of women."Source: 2012 Presidential Debate | Speaker: Mitt Romney
"Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife."Source: Gladiator | Speaker: Maximus Decimus Meridius
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here!"Source: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Speaker: President Merkin Muffley
"I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom."Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Author: Frederick Douglass
"I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters—two beautiful, intelligent, Black young women—playing with their dogs on the White House lawn."Source: 2016 Democratic National Convention Speech | Speaker: Michelle Obama
"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith
"If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics."Source: The Great McGinty | Speaker: Skeeters
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."Source: Misquote | Speaker: Joseph Goebbels
"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."Source: 1965 Speech | Speaker: Margaret Thatcher
"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."Source: Batman Begins | Speaker: Batman
"It's this century. It still does perplex me so."Source: American Horror Story: Coven | Speaker: Delphine LaLaurie
"Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople."Source: Istanbul (Not Constantinople) | Speaker: They Might Be Giants
"Of course he has a knife. He always has a knife."Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Eleanor of Aquitaine
"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."Source: Brave New World | Author: Aldous Huxley
"Politics is the art of the possible."Source: St. Petersburgische Zeitung | Author: Prince Otto von Bismarck
"Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe…"Source: Lawrence of Arabia | Speaker: T.E. Lawrence
"The best thing about human beings is that they stack so neatly."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood
"The gift of a good liar is making people believe you lack a talent for lying."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe! You have to make it fall."Source: Libération | Speaker: Che Guevara
"There is no such thing [as society]!"Source: Interview with Woman's Own magazine in 1987 | Speaker: Margaret Thatcher
"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us."Source: Speech at the Audubon Ballroom | Speaker: Malcolm X
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."Source: Letter to William Henry Harrison | Author: Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
"You must never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it."Source: Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer | Author: Ogden Nash
"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith