Quotes from Will Rogers

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

America has the best politicians money can buy.

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.

It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.

Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.