Quotes from Will Rogers

You would be surprised what there is to see in this great country within 200 miles of where any of us live. I don't care what State or what town.

I am not a member of any organized party -- I am a Democrat

I never mewt a man I didn't like.

Thank God we don't get all the government we pay for.

The worst thing that happens to you. May be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you!!

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there

If stupidity got u into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

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, God knows, he doesn't know much.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

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

I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

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

Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do.

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

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

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

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

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

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

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