Will Rogers Quotes

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

The American political system is based on the president taking the initiative and Congress responding. With President Trump, it's been the opposite.

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

Politics disgusts me.

All free governments must consist of two councils, a lesser and a greater.

There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics…

I have no love for American politics..

I think all politicians have gotten out of touch.

Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000.

There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.

The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony.

We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.

Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.

Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.

We all went up to Washington on a mission to change things. What I found is that the Founding Fathers set it up where it's a little more difficult to do. We've got the Senate and the president to deal with.

Health reform is, in some ways, a microcosm to everything that's right about Washington and everything that's wrong about it.

You turn on the TV, and you hear all these guys: 'Republican Party in disarray. Turmoil in Washington.' I don't think that's the case.

Anybody who thinks there's not a vast right-wing conspiracy in this country must also think that Ken Starr should be our next ambassador to Luxembourg.

There's a lot of bipartisan rancor, a lot of excessive delegation of legislative power from the legislative branch to the executive branch.

We pride ourselves on our democracy, but when you see the way it actually works, I think it is worthy of contempt.

Congress is more broken than ever. Congressman Will Hurd has quickly become part of the problem.

Donald Trump got elected because, in his twisted way, he pointed out the huge troubles in our economy and our democracy.

Let's face it, politics in this country is coin-operated. Does that really equate to a real democracy? It's very difficult to say.

Politics is awful.

Conventional wisdom holds that the public disproportionately blames Republicans for government shutdowns. The disproportionate election of Republicans to the U.S. Senate following the Republican-led shutdown of 2013 should have put that canard to rest.