Will Rogers Politics Quotes & Sayings

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

Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he wants business to help the little fellow to get started and get some work, and then pay business back by buying things when he's at work. Business says, 'Let everybody alone. Let business alone, and quit monkeying with us, and we'll get everything going for you, and if we prosper, naturally the worker will prosper.' — Will Rogers

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep. — John F. Kennedy

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. — Will Rogers

Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it. — Will Rogers

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? — Will Rogers

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. — Will Rogers

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress? — Will Rogers

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing,
you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
The one that's out always looks the best — Will Rogers

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. — Will Rogers

I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat. — Will Rogers

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability. — Will Rogers

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much. — Will Rogers

Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion. — Will Rogers

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

We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse. — Will Rogers

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

Common sense is not an issue in politics
it's an affliction. — Will Rogers

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

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

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

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail. — Will Rogers

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

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. — Will Rogers

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. — Will Rogers

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. — Will Rogers

Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington. — Will Rogers

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. — Will Rogers

Politics are receiving a lot of attention because we have nothing else to interest us. No nation in the history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is go and buy it on credit. So that leaves us without any economic problem whatever, except perhaps some day to have to pay for them. But we are certainly not thinking about that this early. — Will Rogers

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. — Will Rogers

I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we get another one in he's worse. So, I am always in favor of keeping the one we've got and let the other go. — Will Rogers

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one. — Will Rogers

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce. — Will Rogers

You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us. — Will Rogers

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

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics. — Will Rogers

Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it". — Will Rogers

Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics. — Will Rogers

Politics is applesauce. — Will Rogers

If this depression stays with us, the loser Tuesday is going to be the winner. — Will Rogers

Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm. — Will Rogers

Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill. — Will Rogers

The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics ... Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words. — Will Rogers

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. — Will Rogers