Politician quotes

Explore powerful and thought-provoking quotes from influential politicians around the world. dive into their insights and beliefs on leadership, governance, and society.

My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.

- Joe Biden

People for the most part pass by the loveliest things in life without paying attention.

- Rosa Luxemburg

I feel at home in the entire world, wherever there are clouds and birds and human tears.

- Rosa Luxemburg

Women's freedom is the sign of social freedom.

- Rosa Luxemburg

We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.

- Rosa Luxemburg

The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.

- Rosa Luxemburg

The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.

- Rosa Luxemburg

It is in the tiny struggles of individual peoples that the great movements of history are most truly revealed.

- Rosa Luxemburg

I want to burden the conscience of the affluent with all the suffering and all the hidden, bitter tears.

- Rosa Luxemburg

I want to affect people like a clap of thunder, to inflame their minds with the breadth of my vision, the strength of my conviction and the power of my expression.

- Rosa Luxemburg

Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.

- Rosa Luxemburg

Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter.

- Rosa Luxemburg

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.

- Rosa Luxemburg

Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.

- Rosa Luxemburg

Once you see results, it becomes an addiction.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

I never set limits or created mental barriers. You may have read that I imagined my biceps as big as mountain peaks when I did my curling exercises. This visualization process was essential if I was to gain the kind of mass and size I needed to win the Mr. Olympia contest against monsters like Sergio Oliva and Lou Ferrigno.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do.

- Boris Johnson

I'm not particularly politically correct, so I tend to reflect what I think are the terrible realities of life, which I think are, generally speaking, conservative.

- Boris Johnson

I'm made up of immigrant stock. I went to a primary school in London. I grew up eating Spangles, why shouldn't I be as well placed to speak for Londoners as anyone else?

- Boris Johnson

I'm in politics to change things – if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles.

- Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

- Boris Johnson

I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.

- Boris Johnson

I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.

- Boris Johnson

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

- Boris Johnson

I want to win and I want to be in office.

- Boris Johnson

I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles.

- Boris Johnson

I think people have a legitimate right to minimise their tax obligations if they can, but they should pay their fair whack. I do think it's important to be transparent.

- Boris Johnson

I think I'm basically a liberal Conservative – I believe in low tax, spirit of free enterprise, and in making sure that we as politicians create the framework for business to produce the dosh that we're going to need to pay for the poorest. And the longer I live, the more I think that we all have a duty to each other.

- Boris Johnson

I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.

- Boris Johnson

I suppose with houses and assets, then I guess I would be a millionaire. But so are a lot of people.

- Boris Johnson