Vice President Quotes

• Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.

  Paul Ryan

  Thinking, People, President

  Paul Ryan at Vice-Presidential Debate at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, www.washingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.

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• One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

  Dan Quayle

  Witty, Responsibility, Political

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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

  Good Morning, Country, Jobs

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• It's easy being vice president - you don't have to do anything.

  Joe Biden

  President, Vices, Easy

  "Biden - "It's Easy Being Vice President" by Dominique Pastre, www.foxnews.com. February 26, 2010.

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• I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?

  John McCain

  Dark, Thinking, Years

  "News From CNN" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2004.

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• Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again.

  Thomas R. Marshall

  Brother, Sea, Two

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• Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.

  John Nance Garner

  Government, President, Vices

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• If I'm vice president of the United States and Donald Trump is president, we're going to put the safety and security of the American people first.

  Mike Pence

  People, Safety, President

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

  Mary Cheney

  Presidential, Vices, Afterthought

  Mary Cheney (2006). “Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life”, Pocket Books

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• Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let's get that straight. She's a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She's easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me. But she's first rate.

  Joe Biden

  America, President, Vices

  "Six times Joe Biden aimed for the truth and caused a headache" by Ashley Killough, www.cnn.com. October 6, 2014.

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• Office of the Vice President... The Council on Competativeness.

  Dan Quayle

  Office, Stupidity, President

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• 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

  Yesterday, Phones, President

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• I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  President, Vices, Professors

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “1898-1903”

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• In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.

  Pat Paulsen

  Growing Up, Boys, America

  Pat Paulsen (1972). “How to wage a successful campaign for the Presidency”

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

  Joe Biden

  Dad, Father, President

  "Preston on Politics: Obama's 'Senate man'" by Mark Preston, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2009.

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• My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!

  Joe Biden

  Mother, Father, President

  "Why were BGSU’s stadium lights on?". "The Courier" Interview, thecourier.com. April 4, 2016.

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

  Alexander Haig

  President, Vices, Alive

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• The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Boss, President, Vices

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• When from behind me, a young woman of 25 uttered the following, it was the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life until Dan Quayle was elected Vice President of the United States. She said, if it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

  Lewis Black

  Horse, College, Years

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

  Al Sharpton

  School, Mean, President

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• Voters decided otherwise [on me as a president candidate] and I will focus on my work here in the Senate because I have nine months left. And after that, later, as a private citizen, I will continue looking for a way to contribute to the cause of political conservatism to help our state and our country and the issues that interest me. But I really don't want to be nor do I think that I will be invited to be any candidate's vice president.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Thinking, Issues

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• What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

  Gloria Steinem

  Talking, President, Vices

  "Gloria Steinem, a Woman Like No Other" by Sarah Hepola, www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2012.

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• There's never been A day in the last four years I've been proud to be his Vice President. Not a single day.

  Joe Biden

  Stupid, Years, President

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• The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue ... and that you need increased supply like ANWR-is two ANWRs worth of energy.

  Stephen Schneider

  Two, President, Anwr

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• I don't believe that people vote for President based on spouses. I don't even think they vote much based on vice presidents or any other factor. I think they choose between the two people who are running.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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