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"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?""

Will Rogers, American Actor

Country, Job, Man, President

"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Country, Needs

"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Country, Opportunity, America, Growth, Potential

"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."

Dave Van Ronk, American Musician

Country, Right, Song

"The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier."

Thomas F. Meagher, Irish Revolutionary

Country, Famine, Glory

"So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing."

Alphonso Jackson, American Public Servant

Country, Needs, Saying

"I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred."

John Mellencamp, American Musician

Country, Hatred, President, Will

"Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Country, Kids, Support, Troops

"If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it."

Bob Hope, American Comedian

Country,

"There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves."

Mike Gordon, American Musician

Country, Play, Song, Sound

Explore more quotes by Cy Coleman

"When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx."

Mother, Old, Years

"I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters."

Trouble, Trying

"I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time."

Time,

"So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country."

Country, Jazz

"I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released."

Love,

"I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!"

Life, Money, People

"We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it."

December, First

"I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better."

Profession,

"Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already."

Artist, Songs, Writer