I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will RogersRead
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
Interpretation
Injecting truth into politics undermines the very nature of political manipulation.
This quote by Will Rogers suggests that truth is fundamentally incompatible with politics, which often relies on deception and manipulation to achieve goals. By stating that injecting truth into politics would eliminate politics itself, Rogers highlights the pervasive dishonesty that exists within political systems and underscores the challenge of maintaining integrity in such an environment.
In practice
During a political debate, one could emphasize the importance of integrity by quoting this.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
The Arab world is facing its own version of an Iron Curtain, imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for power.
Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.
I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly equipped to be the chief executive of this country, particularly where Indian Affairs are concerned.
Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
I have people ask me if I'm going to convince my daughters to be Democrats, and I say, 'I have yet to convince my daughters to close a door.' I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation.
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