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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.

- Wayne Rogers

Speech, Free Speech, Issue, Bogus

Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best around. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't trust me, so why should I trust them? It's a quid pro quo arrangement.

- Wayne Rogers

Trust, Why, Internal, Quid

You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

- Wayne Rogers

Middle, Like, Come, Public Eye

We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.

- Wayne Rogers

Big, Which, Headed, Strangle

Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.

- Wayne Rogers

Living, Same, Standard, Workforce

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

- Wayne Rogers

Saying, Me, Hard, Honorable

The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.

- Wayne Rogers

Bad, Some, Subscribe, Libertarian

There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too.

- Wayne Rogers

Something, Okay, Contest, Wills

Do we need Medicare reform? Yes we do.

- Wayne Rogers

Need, Yes, Reform, Medicare

It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.

- Wayne Rogers

Other, Religious, Figure, Inquiring

We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.

- Wayne Rogers

Doing, Florida, Making, Base

If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.

- Wayne Rogers

Think, Outside, Box, Entrepreneur

I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the risk of sounding pretentious - as an icon by which we measure society... My life has been in the theater to an extent. It's only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever.

- Wayne Rogers

My Life, Been, Extent, Pretentious

I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

- Wayne Rogers

Business, My Own, Stories, Managers

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

- Wayne Rogers

Actress, Everybody, About, Extravagant

The world is getting smaller and smaller every day. We cannot find ourselves dependent on somebody who is untrustworthy.

- Wayne Rogers

Smaller, We Cannot, Dependent

If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.

- Wayne Rogers

Middle, Could, Obviously, Dependent

I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.

- Wayne Rogers

Like, Sucking, Thumb, Enslaved

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

- Wayne Rogers

Love, Having, Gonna, Not Knowing

What I would really like to do is live in a university town and be an intellectual bum. I just want to write, read, whatever. I'm very eclectic. I read every night until my eyes burn.

- Wayne Rogers

Burn, Very, Read, Every Night

We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?

- Wayne Rogers

Over, Representing, Read, Vote

You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.

- Wayne Rogers

Idea, Everybody, Having, No Point

The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.

- Wayne Rogers

Government, Fact, Matter, Protect

As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them.

- Wayne Rogers

Could, Cut, Jobs, As Far As

When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.

- Wayne Rogers

Start, Sentence, Nowhere, Illegal

You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.

- Wayne Rogers

Doing, Part, Lives, Federal

To wash dishes is not the same as a guy running a numerically-controlled machine. That guy running a numerically-controlled machine is going to get a higher level of pay because his training is higher, and he should get a higher level of pay.

- Wayne Rogers

Level, Going, Wash, Higher

I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.

- Wayne Rogers

My Life, May, Slightly, Paranoid

I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.

- Wayne Rogers

Think, Nine, Which, Tenth

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

- Wayne Rogers

Listening, Doing, Speaking, Happening

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