Quotes from Will Rogers

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Be a politician; no training necessary.

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives

I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

More men have been elected between sundown and sunup than ever were elected between sunup and sundown.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

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