The Cowboy Humorist of Oklahoma he had a knack for explaining things which still holds true today...

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

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.

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

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. Will Rogers

Politics is applesauce.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

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

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

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

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

Will Rogers.

And one more I thought was either his or Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) but couldn't find the actual author.

"The only home grown criminal class in the United States is the Congress."

That's all you need to know.

Cheers

Michael S(miley) ;D