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“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”
― Will Rogers

“Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
― Will Rogers

“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. ”
― Will Rogers

“The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”
― Will Rogers

“You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.”
― Will Rogers

“If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out.”
― Will Rogers

“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
― Will Rogers

“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.”
― Will Rogers

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

“Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're actually paying for.”
― Will Rogers

“What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.”
― Will Rogers

“When you're through learning, you're through.”
― Will Rogers

“There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.”
― Will Rogers

“Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.”
― Will Rogers

“Plans get you into things but you've got to work your way out.”
― Will Rogers

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

“People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.”
― Will Rogers

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

“If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.”
― Will Rogers

“People only learn through two things. One is reading and the other is association with smarter people”
― Will Rogers

“To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

“Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.”
― Barry Hughart, Bridge of Birds

“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”
― Paul Krugman

“Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.”
― Aristotle, Politics

“Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.

The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running. That's why I became an operative working with Democrats. With Democrats all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the ole cattle prod in case a few want to bolt the herd.

Eighty percent of the people who call themselves Democrats don't have a clue as to political reality.
What amazes me is that you could take a group of people who are hard workers and convince them that they should support social programs that were the exact opposite of their own personal convictions. Put a little fear here and there and you can get people to vote any way you want.

The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn't have a clue than there were Republicans.

Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.”
― James Carville

“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt