Will Rogers

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

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

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

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.


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

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.


Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."