Will Rogers: America is a great country, but you can't live in it for...

One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.

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I know things are going to get better in spite of both sides. Then when things do get better, then you'll hear the yell that will go up. The Democrats will swear that recovery was due to them. Now the Republicans, they'll say it was due to them. Nobody wanted to claim the credit for the country blowing up, but wait until it starts picking up and they'll both be on it then. See?

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We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

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There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.

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When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.

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Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

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We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

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There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

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People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

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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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Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.

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You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one

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A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.

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Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.

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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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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

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There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.

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The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.

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All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.

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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

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America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.