"You've got to be (an) optimist to..." - Quote by Will Rogers
You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one
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“The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.”
“They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.”
“Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.”
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“There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.”
“That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.”
“The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.”
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“Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.”
“A Democrat is just like a baby. If it's hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it. When it's quiet and doesn't pay much attention to anything, that's when it's really dangerous.”
“Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.”