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Vice President Quotes

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.
- David Axelrod

Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain's advice on vice presidential nominees.
- David Axelrod

Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.
- Joe Biden

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.
- Joe Biden

I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.
- Pat Buchanan

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.
- George H W Bush

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
- Dan Quayle

I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
- Dan Quayle

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.
- Robert Byrd

I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.
- Herman Cain

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
- Johnny Carson

I read more than I had in years-novels, short stories, three long nonfiction books about how we had stumbled into the Iraq mess (the short answer appeared to have W for a middle initial and a dick for a Vice President).
- Stephen King

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.
- Mary Cheney

I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.
- Mary Cheney

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
- Mary Cheney

One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008.
- William J Clinton

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.
- Ann Coulter

No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense.
- Al Damato

I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
- Bob Dole

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.
- Phil Donahue

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.
- John Edwards

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
- Rahm Emanuel

People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.
- Susan Estrich

You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
- Harold S Geneen

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.
- Geraldine Ferraro

Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!
- Geraldine Ferraro

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.
- Al Gore

I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.
- Jennifer M Granholm

If the president and the Vice President dies who becomes President" "Thats easy Arnold Swartzanager
- Dan Gutman

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
- Alexander Haig

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.
- Hubert H Humphrey

I walk everywhere wearing orange pants, an orange vest, and a yellow bicycle helmet with a bumper supporting a political candidate I don't support. I want people to associate that politician with a retard in the hopes they don't vote for him. Or they could just associate him with a retard because his vice president is one.
- Jarod Kintz

This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it's about our families, it is about our country, and frankly, ladies and gentlemen, it is about the world. We've got to leave here and march, and make sure Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are president and vice president of the United States.
- John Kasich

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.
- Joshua A Norton

I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people.
- Frank Lautenberg

There was a burst of applause when George Washington entered and walked to the dais. More applause followed on the appearance of Thomas Jefferson, who had been inaugurated Vice President upstairs in the Senate earlier that morning, and "like marks of approbation" greeted John Adams, who on his entrance in the wake of the two tall Virginians seemed shorter and more bulky even than usual.
- David Mccullough

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
- Marty Meehan

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.
- Dee Dee Myers

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'
- Conan Obrien

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.
- Ted Olson

Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.
- John Olver

The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If you're a jerk as a leader, you will be torpedoed. And usually it won't be by your vice presidents; it will be on the loading dock at 3am when no supervisors are around.
- Tom Peters

People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly the media does. I don't think that it's that important.
- Rob Portman

The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.
- Elliot Richardson

Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States. I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity - and I know we can do this.
- Paul Ryan

In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.
- Joe Scarborough

So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender.
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
- Al Sharpton

In our relationship, we have very well-defined roles: I am the Vice President of Logistics; he's the CEO of Emotional Support.
- Ariel Meadow Stallings

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
- Gloria Steinem

I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.
- Bradley Whitford

It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.
- Christine Todd Whitman

Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy.
- Douglas Wilder

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