Will Rogers Quotes

A politician is an arse upon which every one has sat except a man.

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.

The modern Southern politician is the least far-seeing of all our short-sighted classes of American statesmen….

People don't trust party leaders.

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

I don't believe there are heroes or saviours in politics.

I'm disappointed that Senator DeWine once again chose to go along with his party leaders and their big corporate lobbyist supporters. Ohio deserves a Senator who will be more than a rubber stamp.

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

The political class has failed you.

It's very hard to like politicians enough to write short stories about them.

Lunched with Jack Kennedy, the new Senator from Massachusetts. He has the making of a first-class Senator or a first-class fascist.

Most Republicans who are registered Republicans are decent, honest good people who you have a difference of opinion with. The leadership of the Republican Party are a bunch of sociopathic maniacs who have their lips super-glued to the ass of the conservative right

I would as soon go to live in a pen in a stockyard as into American politics

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn’t.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

When you have a party leadership that is out of touch with the rest of the country, then that's a real problem for the entire party.

When people go to vote still in Britain, they will look at their local representatives, but I don't think there is a sort of cult of personality politics. Obviously, they want to know who the leader is for each party, but I think there is a lot of identification with their local candidates.

Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.

I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, not because he was on the Right, but because he spent a year in office without, on his own admission, doing a damned thing.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.