Government Quotes by Will Rogers

“It's a good thing the American people aren't getting all the government they're paying for.”

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

— Will Rogers

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

People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

— Will Rogers

Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.

— Will Rogers

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

— Will Rogers

As bad as we sometimes think our government is run, it is the best run I ever saw.

— Will Rogers

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

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

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

The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be…

— Will Rogers

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

A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for…

— Will Rogers

There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do…

— Will Rogers

Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he…

— Will Rogers

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

This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it…

— Will Rogers

The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass…

— Will Rogers

Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for…

— Will Rogers

The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises…

— Will Rogers

If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear…

— Will Rogers

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

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

Conferences are just like the poor and the Democrats, they will always be with us.

— Will Rogers

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

— Will Rogers

If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

— Will Rogers

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

— Will Rogers

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

— Will Rogers

Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!

— Will Rogers

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid

— Will Rogers

There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.

— Will Rogers

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

— Will Rogers

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

— Will Rogers

“Just be glad you're not getting all the government you're paying for”

— Will Rogers

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

— Will Rogers

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

— Will Rogers

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any…

— Will Rogers