Will Rogers Quotes

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.

You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other.

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader's style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

Spirituality in Washington can be more of a - I don't want to say it - but, a networking opportunity. Religion is often used opportunistically in the political conversation.

If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum.

I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.

Party honesty is party expediency.

One of the melancholy facts of political life is that your convictions tend to align with your paycheck.

The single biggest weakness that politicians have as a group is that they want people to like them.

Some politicians denounce government in order to capture the government and then they turn around and expand the government.

The hardest thing about a presidential election is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

We ought to change polls, not to follow polls.

The public will vote if they have something important to vote for or against.

Most people have a healthy disrespect for politicians.

If we could, somehow, get a vote of the people of Tennessee and have it result properly, it would be worth more to us than a battle gained. How long before we can get such a vote?

There'd be complaints about federal mandates but every time you'd ask someone to name 10 they would do away with ... you'd get silence.

I’ve never felt that his private life was the way to judge him. We should judge a president by the way he performs as president.

The British people don’t want me anymore.

Senator [John] Kerry has been in Washington long enough to have taken both sides on every issue.

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