Will Rogers

“I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.”

“Politics is applesauce.”

“If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?”

“People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.”

“Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.”

“The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'”

“The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.”

“There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.”

“The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket.”

“The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”

“Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.”

“An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.”

“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.”

“Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.”

“Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.”

“There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”

“Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.”

“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”

“When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.”

“Things ain't what they used to be and never were.”