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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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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel.
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
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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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Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man we never get to vote on what he is to do.
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It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about it's the return of my investment
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You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?
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Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.
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If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there
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An economist is a man that can 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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Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!
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Lord, let me live until I die.
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