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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
[Jokes]
 

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.
 

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.
[Sports]
 

I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.
 

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
 

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.
 

I have no Politics. I am for the Party that is out of Power, no matter which one it is. But I will give you my word that, in case of my appointment, I will not be a Republican; I will do my best to pull with you, and not embarrass you. In fact, my views on European affairs are so in accord with you, Mr. President, that I might almost be suspected of being a Democrat.
 

I know men that would make my wife a better husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.
 

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
[Funny]
 

I never met a man I didn't like.
 

I not only "don't choose to run" but I don't even want to leave a loophole in case I am drafted, so I won't "choose". I will say "won't run" no matter how bad the country will need a comedian by that time.
 

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
 

I tell you Folks, all Politics is Apple Sauce.
 

I tell you, this finding out how to govern a country, or even a state, or county, or even town, has got the whole world licked. There is not a type of government that can point with complete pride and say: There, this is the best that can be had!
 

I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
 

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
 

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
[Funny]
 

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
 

If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.
 

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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