I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will RogersRead
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
Interpretation
The vice-president has a seemingly easy job compared to the president, emphasizing the humorous aspect of political roles.
Will Rogers humorously suggests that the vice-president enjoys a cushy position, primarily focused on inquiring about the president's well-being. This highlights the contrast and perceived ease of the vice-president's job, poking fun at the often overwhelming responsibilities faced by president, while also commenting on the nature of political roles and public perception.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech about leadership roles in politics.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
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.
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
You donβt want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I donβt want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera.
He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.
Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?
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