1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.

There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

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.

The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.

God made man a little lower than the angels, and he has been getting a little lower ever since