Will Rogers

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

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

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.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

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

I think if this country gets any kinder or gentler, it’s literally going to cease to exist.

You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.

Nobody has better respect for intelligence than Donald Trump.

The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

There’s a whole filtering process that enables people to rise through the system into managerial roles only if they’ve demonstrated that they’ve successfully internalized the values demanded by private power.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

The United States should get rid of its militias.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

Have you read the things that were published in Moskovskiye Novosti and Ogonyok in those days? For instance, General Kalugin’s exposures? Kalugin is a traitor. I saw Kalugin during my time in Leningrad when he was deputy head of the Directorate. He was an absolute loafer. A loafer, perhaps, but he remembers you. He doesn’t remember anything. He does remember, and he says that from the point of view of the intelligence service, you worked in a province and had nothing to show for your performance. Oh, he doesn’t remember a thing. He couldn’t remember me. I had no contact with him, nor did I meet him. It is I who remembers him, because he was a big boss and everybody knew him. As to whether he knew me, there were hundreds of us.

[Overseas] we build a school, we build a road, they blow up the school, we build another school, we build another road, they blow them up, we build again. In the meantime we can’t get a f**king school in Brooklyn.

Already under Obama, the nuclear modernization programs had reached the level where they were posing a literal first-strike threat to Russia. Trump is escalating it, even more modernization of extremely dangerous forces, also significantly lowering the threshold for nuclear war.

A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.