Politics Quotes

How can I accept the Order of the Garter, when the people of England have just given me the Order of the Boot?

Unless the Rt. Hon. Gentleman changes his policy and methods...he will be as great a curse to this country in time of peace, as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war.

We are paying eight millions a year for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano out of which we are in no circumstances to get anything worth having.

Much might be said for and against the two-Party system. But no one can doubt that it adds to the stability and cohesion of the State. The alternation of Parties in power, like the rotation of crops, has beneficial results. Each of the two Parties has services to render in the development of the national life; and the succession of new and different points of view is a real benefit to the country.

These are the qualifications of a good Party man-you must know how to put your Party before yourself, and you must know the occasions when to put nation before Party.

[Mr. Attlee, then Prime Minister] the other day accused me of being party minded. Everyone would naturally be shocked if a party leader were party minded! But we are all party minded in the baffling and unhappy period between election decisions.

It is part of the established technique of the "cold war" the Soviets have begun against us all, that in any country which has fallen into their power, people of character and men of heart and personality outstanding in any walk of life, from the manual worker to the university professor, shall be what is called in their savage jargon "liquidated".

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.

I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map.

You're damn right I'm comfortable, I've worked very hard to be comfortable. But something I've always tried to impress upon people is that these folks in the houses of parliament affect what's in your wage packet, the welfare of your kids, your health. Why wouldn't we be interested in it?

In a position to make a difference, politicians and hypocrites they don't wanna listen.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

You say dabble in politics, I don't know what that is. You say stand up and talk for my rights - I know what that is.

Voting for Trump is like asking me to drive a car.

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached. Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

Right now, America is in a state of upheaval. Poverty is demoralizing. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor. But we've got this guy there now who is redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to.

There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground.