"One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country."

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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

"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."

George Ade, American Playwright

Country, Entertainment, Popular

"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

"I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days."

W. Richard Stevens, American Scientist

Country, Job, Weather, Years

"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

"The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries."

Rene Cassin, French Judge

Country, Countries, Nations, Protection

"In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney."

Jacques Verges, French Lawyer

Country, Man, Public

Explore more quotes by Danny Glover

"Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects."

Values

"I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family."

Family

"New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages?"

Experience

"If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country."

Men

"We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions."

Question

"I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men."

Men

"I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me."

Choice

"If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica."

Environment

"When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace."

Job

"Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row."

Death