"We don't seem to be able to..." - Quote by Will Rogers

“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”

“The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.”

“One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.”

“It is better to support schools than jails.”

“There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.”

“Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.”

“Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.”

“Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.”

“The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.”