Will Rogers Quotes

Charles Miller cannot bring down my government.

Every single election in every country has a component of a referendum in it.

Israel is not an anarchy.

A banana republic we are not.

If we don't get reform in campaign financing, then we can write this country off.

There are people working their butts off trying to save our republic and save democracy from the likes of powerful people in the Democrat Party who want to take this country and turn it into a personal little playground for their own private gain.

Government and politics isn't like a reality TV show. It's not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know, it's about what do we need to take our country or our state or our city forward? And people, frankly, would be well advised to really get back into understanding politics.

It's abominable, and it's a disgrace to a great democracy to see what's happened in our country. The main reason for that has been the enormous infusion of high quantities of money to campaigns - governors, Congress, president and the U.S. Senate.

We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.

Hillary Clinton will be a disaster for our country, a disaster in so many other ways.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

You can't afford to hate politics. The politics of this country is democracy. Democracy is by the people, of the people and for the people. The day people stop taking active part in the politics of this country, democracy will not survive.

And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.

The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

Democracy is good for world peace.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

Every political contest is hard, that's part of the DNA in America. We make it really tough to run for and hold the highest and hardest job in our country.

Congress is best viewed from a distance - the farther the better - because up close, it is truly ugly.

What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?

We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.

Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.

America has been betrayed. We've been betrayed by the leadership that Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton have provided to this country over the last number of years. Think about just what's happened today.

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands.