“A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.” ThinkingNightPoliticsPresidentLaysCongressAwakeNight Thinking Author:Will Rogers
“Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.” NightReadingPoliticsSatAshamedDiariesAll NightUp All Night Book:The Will Rogers scrapbook Source: The Will Rogers scrapbook
“If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear from now until the 4th of November will be: 'We must get our government out of the hands of predatory wealth.' 'The good people of this great country are burdened to death with taxes. Now what I intend to do is ...' What he intends to do is try and get elected. That's all any of them intend to do. Another one that will hum over the old static every night will be: 'This country has reached a crisis in its national existence.'” PeopleIfsTryingCountryHandsGovernmentNightThreeNextPoliticsWealthExistenceMonthsTaxesCrisisRadioQuittingGood TimesGood PeopleEvery NightNovemberStaticThree MonthsGreat CountryPredatory Author:Will Rogers
“What have the masses been clamoring for? Jobs and welfare, and they got 'em. They've also got unions and managements like two armies converting the whole economy into a battleground with the customers as victims, except that the victims are also in the army. They think in battle terms by day and like customers at night.” ThinkingTwoWholeWisdomJobsNightPoliticsTermEconomyBattleMassArmyManagementVictimUnionsCustomersWelfareLiberalismEmsConvertingBattleground Author:Louis O. Kelso
“The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men” MenRealNightFightingPoliticsReal Power Book:The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell Source: The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell
“I have toured around for 45 years and have experience of night halt at more than 400 districts. And that's why I know the reality of this earth.” KnowsYearsRealityEarthNightPoliticsIndiaHalt Author:Narendra Modi
“Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps, and come back out into the brightness above, that is the work, that is the labor.” PoliticalNightPoliticsEasyBornStepsDarknessHellDoorsLaborDay And NightBrightnessDescent Author:Virgil
“If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.” IfsShowsNightPoliticsMoralGonePoliticianLateAccountabilityHostTalk ShowsClergymenLate Night Author:Craig Ferguson