Some things never change...

Selected quotes from a wise man and an Oklahoman who is not an embarrassment to us all, unlike Inhofe (R-Oil) and Coburn (R - Phony Xtians).

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
...

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
...

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

People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
...

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
...

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
...

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

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
...

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

There are so many of these that I could go on forever. A couple more:

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Boy, but that ship has sailed! Heh.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

There is none so blind as he who will not see. We have too many of those.

I tried to stop. I can't...

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
...

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.
...

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
...

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

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

Perhaps the truest of all:

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

They're taking me away now. The meds are kickin' in and they have the sleeves all the way around me...