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14. Or maybe Will Rogers?

He did say, "It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."

He also said:
A fool and his money are soon elected.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.