The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice. Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.
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The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
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I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
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Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
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There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set. If you have lost anybody anywhere and don
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
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One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.
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Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
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With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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Politics is applesauce.
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Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
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On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
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If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
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I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.
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People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible.
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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.
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There should be one day when there is open season on senators.
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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
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About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
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