Will Rogers

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.

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

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

The ferocity of the assault against labor by the U.S. business class is illustrated by Washington’s failure, for 60 years, to ratify the core principle of international labor law, which guarantees freedom of association.

The educational system was a highly predictable victim of the neoliberal reaction, guided by the maxim of ‘private affluence and public squalor’. Funding for public education has sharply declined. Tuition has exploded, leading to a plague of unpayable student debt.

I’ve read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I’ve made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.

So the idea that Europe should exploit Africa for Europe’s reconstruction passed without comment. This is just deeply imbedded in the consciousness of what’s sometimes called white supremacy which is an extraordinary doctrine.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an ‘evil empire.’

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.