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When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.
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You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.
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The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.
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The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words.
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Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.
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It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.
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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
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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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The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
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Be a politician no training necessary.
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We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.
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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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Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.
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Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.
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I am always going to do my best, no matter where I am.
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I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will tell you what can happen under any given condition — and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's, too.
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Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.
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I never met a man that I didn't like.
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Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.
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I do honestly believe the Republicans have reformed and want to do better. But whether they have done it in time to win the election is another thing. The old voter is getting so he wants to be saved before October every election year.
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