Will Rogers Political Quotations

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

I don't belong to an organized political party, I'm a Democrat.

If you hear of anyone proposing my name for political office, please maim him and send me the bill.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.

A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.

We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.

They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.

In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

Be a politician; no training necessary.

Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he certainly would know more than to farm. He would be a professor at Harvard.

And the thing about my jokes is, they don't hurt anybody. You can take 'em or leave 'em - you can say they're funny or they're terrible or they're good, or whatever, but you can just pass 'em by. But with Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law! And every time they make a law, it's a joke!

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat.

The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President

You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back