Political Will Quotes

• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  In Saturday Review 25 Aug. 1962

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  Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

  Groucho Marx

  Art, Freedom, Liberty

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• Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

  George Orwell

  Witty, Peace, Truth

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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• In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Freedom, Order, Libertarian Party

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• We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.

  Tony Blair

  Future, Issues, Vision

  "Can she sustain it?" by Jonathon Porritt, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2002.

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• Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Change

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

  Will Rogers

  Death, Government, Differences

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  Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

  Pericles

  Inspirational, Trust, Witty

  "American Voters Suffer Learned Helplessness" by Andrea Chalupa, bigthink.com. September 7, 2012.

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• Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Hilarious, Parenting

  The Illiterate Digest "Warning to Jokers: Lay Off the Prince" (1924)

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• Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

  Oscar Ameringer

  Life, Witty, Art

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• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

  Plato

  Plato, War, Government

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• Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

  Al Gore

  Renewable Resources, Abundance, Ifs

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

  Simon Cameron

  Honesty, Definitions, Politics

  Attributed in "Chronicles of America Series" by Allen Johnson, Yale University Press, 1918.

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  Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Greed, Nerd, Principles

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.271, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Freedom, Independent, Science

  Andrew M. Allison, Willard Cleon Skousen, M. Richard Maxfield, Benjamin Franklin (1982). “The Real Benjamin Franklin”

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• If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Truth, Politics

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.150, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Success, Wisdom

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.143, Penguin

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• It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Religious, Freedom

  "The Age of Louis XIV". Book by Voltaire, 1751.

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  We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

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• Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

  Henry Adams

  Witty, Science, Politics

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 24 (1907)

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• Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Gun, Chinese Revolution

  Speech at sixth plenary session of Central Committee, Communist Party, Yan'an, China, 6 Nov. 1938

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• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

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• Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Book

  "The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1996.

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• When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

  Edmund Burke

  Honesty, Integrity, War

  Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) See Edmund Burke 28; Mill 18

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• There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

  Will Rogers

  Jail, Independence, Politics

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.149, Rowman & Littlefield

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