Will Rogers Quotes

Anyone who has ever spent time listening to a legislature knows the astonishing speed at which all presiding officers and reading clerks can spit out the formulaic incantations of parliamentary procedure.

A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel.

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

Ann Romney talking about middle class moms is like Chris Christie talking about a salad

A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.

I think if more members of Congress would talk about what they see and what they want to do and what they want to accomplish, rather than talking about their opponent, we would begin to shape and reshape American public opinion on what the political world looks like.

My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking.

Filibuster is a harsh word. I prefer to offer amendments and let others filibuster.

Only in Washington do you hear a budget increase described as a cut.

They keep such a dingdong about “supporting the Constitution.” One might imagine it was some miserable, decrepit old creature that was no longer able to totter on crutches but must be held on every side, and dragged along like a drunken loafer, on his road to the lock-up.

Parliament will train your men to the manners required of a statesman; but in a much less degree to the intrinsic functions of one. To these latter, it is capable of mistraining as nothing else can. Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk. To tell a good story for yourself, and to make it appear that you have done your work

In a body [Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers ...you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate and frequently the more trifling the subject the more animated and protracted the discussion

The Republican National Convention was a rage-athon featuring a parade of hemorrhoidal has-beens.

Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

Donald Trump's tweets attract ridicule from some. But clearly they communicate effectively with his millions of supporters.

The Right doesn't usually threaten to leave the country. When the Right feels threatened, it just declares it is going to invent a time machine to take the country back so that America can be 'great again.'

If you read the Senate rules, there are provisions where the Senate parliamentarian can be overridden.

I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.