Quotes from Will Rogers

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

Be a politician; no training necessary.

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

The more you read about politics the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

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

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

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

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.

Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal -- they have to live off each other--while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

The nation is prosperpus on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.