Will Rogers Quotes
It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered.
Rogers, Will. Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams, Volume 2: The Hoover Years: 1929-1931, edited by James M. Smallwood, Oklahoma State University Press, 1978.
There were very few politicians who would dare to even unfavorably mention the KKK. Long however took them on directly.
Fischer was in the midst of a parliamentary debate and the President had ruled against him on a procedural matter.
Partisanship had reached a heated pitch like America at the beginning of the 21st century. Note that she used the term “violence” to describe verbal assaults. Joseph Hume was the leader of the Radical Party.
William Penn Adair Rogers was an American stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma. He was a Cherokee citizen born in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory.