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We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?
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Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there.
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I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.
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I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.
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Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
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Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
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It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.
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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise what they would do if they got in. But the Republicans have to promise what they would do and then explain why they haven't already done it.
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Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.
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Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
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And the thing about my jokes is, they don't hurt anybody. You can take 'em or leave 'em - you can say they're funny or they're terrible or they're good, or whatever, but you can just pass 'em by. But with Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law! And every time they make a law, it's a joke!
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Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.
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America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
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American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.
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Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.
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When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
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Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax off the sales of stocks, didn't you? Saved 'em $48,000,000. Now, why don't somebody investigate the Senate and see who got to them to get that tax removed? That would be a real investigation.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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