Will Rogers Quotes

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

I don't do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

I never met a politician that I couldn’t take a poke at.

There is nothing more frightening to a political satirist than an honest administration.

I am shocked that both the Congress and SAD make fun of comedians.

As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.

People don't understand that we're not warriors in their cause. We're a group of people that really feel that they want to write jokes about the absurdity that we see in government and the world and all that, and that's it.

President Obama. He is the man. I've tried the rest, and he is the best. My dream is for him to appoint me to be the Secretary of Humor. My first act will be to make whatever Larry the Cable Guy is doing illegal.

As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.

Thank you to the readers of the 'Huffington Post' for voting me the 'Hottest Freshman' of the 111th Congress. It's about time politicians from Illinois were known for something other than bad haircuts or having the ability to walk on water.

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.