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Short memories

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 28, 2022Categories politicsTags Will Rogers

If only they never did anything

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don’t hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

Author Greg RavenPosted on August 28, 2020September 13, 2020Categories governmentTags Will Rogers

Running the country

Things in our country run in spite of the government, not by the aid of it.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 4, 2010November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Will Rogers

Too bad it’s not our money

We have the best Congress that money can buy.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 5, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories corruptionTags Will Rogers

Not jokes, but facts

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Will Rogers

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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