60 Movie Quotes about Politics (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 19, 2025

Memorable quotes about politics, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Remember back to your early teachings. All who gain power are afraid to lose it. Even the Jedi.

Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine Darth Sidious in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

2 Donald, let him talk. There's no reason, I want to hear every viewpoint. I really do.

Sam Neill as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park

3 This'll be strictly a formal affair, but, uh, purely social. By that, I mean, um, purely political.

George C. Scott as General George Patton in Patton (1970)

4 Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that _ just goes right out the window.

Eric Bana as Hoot in Black Hawk Down

5 Well, Donald may be nuts, but he's got the right idea. Kill the cow.

Cliff Edwards as Jiminy Cricket in Fun and Fancy Free

6 So, who gives a crap if they're socialists? They could be fascist anarchists. It still wouldn't change the fact that I don't own a car.

Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

7 Did I answer well? -You answered without saying anything. That's politics.

Arthur Kennedy as Jackson Bentley in Lawrence of Arabia

8 For some reason he felt that it was inappropriate for a senator to have a corrupt wife, for a doctor to take advantage of his patients, for a wife to emasculate her husband, and so forth.

Tim Curry as Wadsworth in Clue (1985)

9 War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

Sean Bean as Odysseus in Troy

10 There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.

Christopher Shea as Linus Van Pelt in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)

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