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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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We have the best Congress that money can buy.
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Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them.
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You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.
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Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
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The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.
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Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.
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Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.
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That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.
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Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay a land tax whether it ever did or ever will earn you a penny. You should pay on things that you buy outside of bare necessities. I think this sales tax is the best tax we have had in years.
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All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.
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More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.
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I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like.
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The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead.
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