I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.
The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It’s only in the amount where the Republicans excel.
When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.
You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.
I don’t know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.
Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.
Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it’s called golf.
I don’t think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You’ve got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.
They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest governor should get four years, and the others life.
All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.
Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.
Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!
A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.
If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can’t protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don’t need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.
Originality will be rewarded in any line.
It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else’s alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.
If you don’t like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it’ll change.