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"Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics."

Roger Ebert on Politics

More quotes about Politics

  • "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

    John F. Kennedy on Politics

  • "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

    Mark Twain on Politics

  • "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

    Plato on Politics

  • "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

    Milton Friedman on Politics

  • "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

    Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Roger Ebert

  • "The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment."

  • "If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen."

  • "The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His."

  • "If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen."

  • "I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out."

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