"The "Ways & Means Committee" is a..." - Quote by Will Rogers

“A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.”

“You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.”

“A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.”

“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.”

“Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.”

“The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.”

“If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?”

“Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!”

“You see, in Washington they have these bodies, Senate and the House of Representatives. That is for the convenience of the visitors. If there is nothing funny happening in one, there is sure to be in the other, and in case one body passes a good bill, why, the other can see it in time and kill it.”