Bogs Quote by Will Rogers

You've got to lie skillfully to get elected, because you've got to convince a whole zoo of self-involved ciphers that you've got every one…

— Norah Vincent

The elected officials should be working for the voters who elected them. Money corrupts the process. Why would you be giving a candidate money…

— Russell Simmons

These office-seekers are a curse to the country; no sooner was my election certain, than I became the prey of hundreds of hungry persistent…

— Abraham Lincoln

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed…

— John Harwood

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Politicians often lie.

— Paul Weyrich

I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn't be in politics, now are saying, 'Oh, wait, I don't need to take…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

— Clint Eastwood

Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected.

— Richard N. Haass

I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.

— Laurance Rockefeller

It is true that all of the current presidential candidates once denied that they had any intention of running. But the fact that I…

— Pat Paulsen

I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected…

— Dick Murphy