| Will Rogers was an amazing person and one of | | | | lot of money even to be defeated. |
| the wisest men of any generation. His | | | | Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until |
| accomplishments include being a champion lasso | | | | you can find a rock. |
| thrower, a performer on the Broadway stage, | | | | A fool and his money are soon elected. |
| the star of 71 movies, a radio broadcaster, an | | | | About all I can say for the United States Senate |
| author of six books, and a syndicated newspaper | | | | is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an |
| columnist. Will Rogers traveled around the world | | | | investigation. |
| three times and befriended presidents, senators, | | | | Our Constitution protects aliens, drunks, and U.S. |
| prime ministers, and kings. | | | | Senators. |
| Will Rogers was famous for his simple, insightful | | | | Anything important is never left to the vote of |
| humor and his ability to connect honestly with | | | | the people. We only get to vote on some man; |
| everyone he met. His comments about politics in | | | | we never get to vote on what he is to do. |
| general and the politics of his generation are | | | | Politics is applesauce. |
| among his most memorable. The following are | | | | Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war |
| some of the best Will Rogers political quotes. | | | | as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy |
| There's no trick to being a humorist when you | | | | out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. |
| have the whole government working for you. | | | | I bet after seeing us, George Washington would |
| Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; | | | | sue us for calling him "father." |
| now what's going to happen to us with both a | | | | There ought to be one day--just one--when there |
| Senate and a House? | | | | is open season on senators. |
| I am not a member of any organized political | | | | The country has come to feel the same when |
| party. I am a Democrat. | | | | Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold |
| I don't make jokes. I just watch the government | | | | of a hammer. |
| and report the facts. | | | | If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the |
| The more you read and observe about this | | | | number of funny things passed in one session of |
| Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is | | | | Congress. |
| worse than the other. The one that's out always | | | | If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have |
| looks the best. | | | | no politics. |
| The income tax has made more liars out of the | | | | Things in our country run in spite of government, |
| American people than golf has. | | | | not by aid of it. |
| On account of being a democracy and run by the | | | | We don't seem to be able to check crime, so |
| people, we are the only nation in the world that | | | | why not legalize it and then tax it out of |
| has to keep a government four years, no matter | | | | business? |
| what it does. | | | | Everything is changing. People are taking their |
| The man with the best job in the country is the | | | | comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. |
| Vice President. All he has to do is get up every | | | | Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does |
| morning and say, "How's the President?" | | | | in speeches. |
| An economist's guess is liable to be as good as | | | | Ohio claims they are due a president as they |
| anybody else's. | | | | haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United |
| Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with | | | | States; they have not had one since Lincoln. |
| nothing -- and that was the closest our country | | | | The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a |
| has ever been to being even. | | | | prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless |
| If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't | | | | the Republican Party the way it's been carrying |
| it get us out? | | | | on, then the rest of us ought to get it without |
| Be thankful we're not getting all the government | | | | even asking. |
| we're paying for. | | | | There is no more independence in politics than |
| Politics has become so expensive that it takes a | | | | there is in jail. |