Politics Quotes

I had all these singles come out within a two-month period, and then nothing for almost two years. You start to feel a little irrelevant. You realize how many people there are trying to be songwriters and how competitive it is and how political things can be.

All democracies turn into dictatorships – but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it’s Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

I am not a full-time politician but a ‘sanyasi’ who took the path of politics to serve the masses.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.