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.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.
People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'
That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can't remember what happens next.
I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
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