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Quotes About Politics

That's not water. That's socialism juice. We should bomb Lake Erie.
~ Bill Maher
We preach about capitalism and the beauty of unfettered market forces determining price--but not when it comes to gas. When it comes to gas, we need it cheap, and the president had better get it for us, or else, we don't care how.
~ Bill Maher
New Rule: You can't put a windmill in your campaign ad if you voted against every single bill that might lead to someone building one. As long as you're sending a camera crew to a farm, why not just take a picture of actual bullshit?
~ Bill Maher
say that evil happens when good men do nothing. And the Democrats prove it also happens when mediocre people do nothing.
~ Bill Maher
New Rule: Stop talking about the gas prices under Obama. As if he's the guy out there changing the numbers on the sign with that long pole. And while they're at the gas station, Republicans who still think human activity doesn't affect air quality should poke their heads in the men's room.
~ Bill Maher
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife, for the true devils of extremism that draw their legitimacy from the billions of their fellow travelers.
~ Bill Maher
I really think when historians look back on our time they will not divide us into red and blue and Republican Democrat like the things that were wrong with us were wrong with both sides in different ways, I do think they manifest in a more dangerous way on the right. But on the left there is a rot and it comes from academia and it filters down.
~ Bill Maher
This is America. We don't have adult discussions. We have Twitter.
~ Bill Maher
Not everything has to be political. You want to heal America? Shut the fuck up for a while.
~ Bill Maher
In America you can be armed, just not with the facts.
~ Bill Maher (Author)
An election is just a romance writ large, with an entire community, rather than a single woman, as the object of one's pursuit.
~ Bill Willingham
And the waitress is practicing politics As the businessmen slowly get stoned Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness But its better than drinkin' alone
~ Billy Joel
If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humoured these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.
~ Blaise Pascal
In the midst of this, and specifically in reference to this distribution of free food to poor people, Ronald Reagan declared that he hoped there would be an outbreak of botulism (deadly food poisoning)!
~ Bob Avakian
Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There's a battle outside ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'.
~ Bob Dylan
the housewife is not here. she is running for congress
~ Bob Dylan
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
~ Bob Dylan (Lyric)
d.c. is the nation's capital. It also leads the country in murder
~ Bob Mayer
Trump is the wrong man for the job.
~ Bob Woodward
Bannon, Kushner and Mnuchin, the former Goldman Sachs executive, presented Trump with a plan for him to give $25 million to the campaign. "No way," Trump said. "Fuck that. I'm not doing it." Where were the famous Republican high-donor guys? "Where the fuck's the money? Where's all this money from these guys? Jared, you're supposed to be raising all this money. Not going to do it.
~ Bob Woodward
Trump said, "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" He had just met with the prime minister of Norway. Why not more Norwegians?
~ Bob Woodward
Let that analysis sink in: Twenty percent of the president's staff think they are "saving the world" from the president.
~ Bob Woodward
Conway agreed with Bannon that if the Trump campaign could make the race about Hillary, not Trump, they would win with those hidden Trump voters. If the race stayed about Trump, "we'll probably lose.
~ Bob Woodward
Bannon said. As for running for president, "Zero chance. First off, those two action items. The fucker will not write one check. He's not a guy who writes checks.
~ Bob Woodward