Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
As bad as we sometimes think our government is run, it is the best run I ever saw. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Conferences are just like the poor and the Democrats, they will always be with us. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“It's a good thing the American people aren't getting all the government they're paying for.” — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“Just be glad you're not getting all the government you're paying for” — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual? — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury! — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course. — Will Rogers Copy Share
The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel. — Will Rogers Copy Share
Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week. — Will Rogers Copy Share
American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off. — Will Rogers Copy Share
There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is… — Will Rogers Copy Share
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. — Will Rogers Copy Share
I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack… — Will Rogers Copy Share
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. — Will Rogers Copy Share
Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of… — Will Rogers Copy Share