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“What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.” – Will Rogers

“It must be nice to belong to some legislative body and just pick money out of the air.” – Will Rogers

“Nations are just like individuals. Loan them money, and you lose their friendship.” – Will Rogers

“We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring ’em to make good.” – Will Rogers

“I generally give the party in power, whether Republican or Democrat, the more digs because they are generally doing the country more damage. The party in power drawing a salary is to be knocked.” – Will Rogers

“This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.” – Will Rogers

“The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.” – Will Rogers

“You could keep politics clean if you could figure out some way, so your government never hired anyone.” – Will Rogers

“As bad as we sometimes think our government is run, it is the best run I ever saw.” – Will Rogers

“If you ever injected t***h into politics, you have no politics.” – Will Rogers

“The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.” – Will Rogers

“In politics, practically everything you hear is a scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain’t half as bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.” – Will Rogers

“Why don’t they pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as Prohibition did, in five years, we will have the smartest race of people on earth.” – Will Rogers

“Ain’t it funny how many hundreds of thousands of soldiers we can recruit with nerve. But we can’t find one politician in a million with backbone.” – Will Rogers

“The short memories of American v**ers is what keeps our politicians in office.” – Will Rogers

“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.” – Will Rogers

“Every nation must have its legalized form of gambling. We have our Wall Street.” – Will Rogers

“People talk peace, but men give their life’s work to war. It won’t stop ‘til there is as much brains and scientific study put to aid peace as there is to promote war.” – Will Rogers

“There has been war since the beginning of time, and we are no smarter than the people that have gone before us. There is apt to be some more war.” – Will Rogers

“America can carry herself and get along in pretty fair shape, but when she stops and picks up the whole world and puts it on her shoulders, she just can’t “get it done.”” – Will Rogers

“One good thing about European nations: they can’t h**e you so bad they wouldn’t use you.” – Will Rogers

“If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches, there wouldn’t be any inducement to go to heaven.” – Will Rogers

“America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.” – Will Rogers

“Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.” – Will Rogers

“We always want the best man to win an e******n. Unfortunately, he never runs.” – Will Rogers

“This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. It’s just a question of how much damage he can do with it before we can take it away from him.” – Will Rogers

“If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone ‘America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.'” – Will Rogers

“Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain’t saying anything.” – Will Rogers

“The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it, except they keep coming back.” – Will Rogers

“When I was a kid, I was told anyone could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.” – Will Rogers

“Let Wall Street have a nightmare, and the whole country has to help get them back in bed again.” – Will Rogers

“The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.” – Will Rogers

“Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.” – Will Rogers

“We don’t give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give ’em plenty of publicity.” – Will Rogers

“One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.” – Will Rogers

“If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.” – Will Rogers

“Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely.” – Will Rogers

“America has the best politicians money can buy.” – Will Rogers

“Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.” – Will Rogers

“If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?” “If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can’t get us out.” – Will Rogers

“A fool and his money are soon elected.” – Will Rogers

“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.” – Will Rogers

“The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.” – Will Rogers

“There is no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.” – Will Rogers

“The difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” – Will Rogers

“There are men running governments who shouldn’t be allowed to play with matches.” – Will Rogers

“Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re actually paying for.” – Will Rogers

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There is a statue of Will in the Capitol Rotunda, at a good vantage point, in keeping with his observation that "somebody needs to keep an eye on that bunch."

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

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