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It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.
Will Rogers
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do.
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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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We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.
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America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
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We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.
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Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
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You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.
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Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.
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I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
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The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
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No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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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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I am telling folks that the Country as a whole is Sound, and that all those who's heads are solid are bound to get back into the market again. I tell 'em that this Country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.
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They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest governor should get four years, and the others life.
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That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.
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Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington.
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