"It is awful hard to get people..." - Quote by Will Rogers
It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.
More by Will Rogers
“The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President”
“Politics are receiving a lot of attention because we have nothing else to interest us. No nation in the history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is go and buy it on credit. So that leaves us without any economic problem whatever, except perhaps some day to have to pay for them. But we are certainly not thinking about that this early.”
“We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.”
More on Corruption
“The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.”
“Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.”
“honesty dies in selling itself.”
More on Human Nature
“Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.”
“Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?”
“War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.”