Political Sayings

The French Republic needs no slaves.

Politics is the strong and slow boring of hard boards.

The idea that we should base our political life on religious or metaphysical conceptions of the good is profoundly anti-democratic.

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

The Mexicans are a mongrel race incapable of self-government.

Every woman adores a Fascist, the boot in the face.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

I am a Democrat, but I think the Democrats have been pretty stupid.

I don't want to change the world. I'm not a politician. I just want to make music.

I'm not a politician. I'm a musician.

I'm not a politician. I'm a musician.

Governments are good at cutting off the heads of centrally controlled networks, but pure P2P networks can hold their own.

I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either.

I’m not a politician. I’m a football player.

I don't like to be pushed around by anybody—including the government.

It was clear that in the United States there was a development not of the best, but of the middle and worst sides of European civilization; the notorious general voting, the tendency to politics... all the same as in Europe. A new dawn is not to be s…

Republics, Kingdoms, Soviets, Corporate States, Parliaments, are trash. [...] These men, whether six or six thousand, are the core of Ireland, are Ireland itself.

What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks …

I know I'm not the best singer, and I know I'm not the best dancer. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in pushing people's buttons, in being provocative. In being political.

We are scientists. We are not politicians. We are not moralists. We are scientists. We have done our job. It is up to others to decide what to do with it.