We never will have any prosperity that is free from speculation till we pass a law that every time a broker or person sells something, he has got to have it sitting there in a bucket, or a bag, or a jug, or a cage, or a rat trap, or something, depending on what it is he is selling. We are continually buying something that we never get from a man that never had it.

But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.

You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.

The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor.

I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers, and the folks that put all those pins in new shirts.

When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction.

I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.

It looks like the financial giants of the world have bungled as much as the diplomats and politicians. This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.

Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Politics ain't worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space

I tell you, all politics is apple sauce.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we get another one in he's worse. So, I am always in favor of keeping the one we've got and let the other go.

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.

When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.

It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.

The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.

The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.

We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

If this depression stays with us, the loser Tuesday is going to be the winner.

Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".

I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.

I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat.

Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he wants business to help the little fellow to get started and get some work, and then pay business back by buying things when he's at work. Business says, 'Let everybody alone. Let business alone, and quit monkeying with us, and we'll get everything going for you, and if we prosper, naturally the worker will prosper.'

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

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.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

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.

No nation ought to be allowed to enter into a war until it's paid for the last one.

If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

You can't say that civilization don't advance; for in every war they kill you a new way.