"The business of government is to keep..." - Quote by Will Rogers

“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.”

“There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.”

“You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.”

“Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.”

“Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.”

“The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of all foreign direct investment.The multinational corporation...puts the economic decision beyond the effective reach of the political process and its decision-makers, national governments.”

“What we really want to do is buy businesses that we would be happy to own forever.”

“The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the deterrence to private initiative which are imposed by our present tax system, and this administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes to be enacted and become effective in 1963.”

“In the army we are drilled into execution and then supervision, to make sure everything goes the way you planned it. But there is another thing that we do in the military, that I think perhaps isn't done enough in corporate life: As soon as you have made that decision, you start on the contingency planning. Because there is, as we like to say, a thinking, breathing enemy out there, who is not going to let you do just what you want.”