Vice President Quotes - Page 10

• One of the main reasons we ought to re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to constructive 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

  Army, America, President

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

  Dick Cheney

  Years, White, Judging

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• 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

  Blessed, Two, Eight

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• 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

  Eight, Years, President

  Eulogy for Ronald Reagan, delivered 11 June 2004, National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

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• 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

  Race, Years, Two

  "I've no plans to stand for US presidency again, says Gore" by Rob Sharp, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.

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• 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 Granholm

  President, Vices, Biden

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• I have something else to ask you-to ask every American. I ask for you to pray for this great nation. I ask your prayers for leaders from both parties. I thank you for your prayers for me and my family, and I ask you to pray for Vice President Gore and his family.

  George W. Bush

  Prayer, Party, Abortion

  2000 Victory Speech, delivered 13 December 2000

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• 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

  Country, Winning, Emotional

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• I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.

  John McCain

  Past, President, Vices

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. July 8, 2004.

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• I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president. I looking to be the president of the United States. Or, I'll be a private citizen, there's nothing wrong with being a private citizen.

  Marco Rubio

  President, Vices, United States

  "Why Marco Rubio Isn't 'Looking To Be Anyone's Vice President'". Interview with Chuck Todd, www.newsweek.com. March 10, 2016.

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• I asked that I not be considered for vice president of the United States.

  John McCain

  President, Vices, United States

  John McCain at Press Conference, www.cbsnews.com. May 9, 2000.

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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? The vice president has two duties. One is to break a tie in case of a tie vote in the United States Senate... The other is to inquire daily as to the health of the president. Neither one of those are very challenging as compared to being able to live for a good part of the time in the state of Arizona.

  John McCain

  Dark, Thinking, Years

  "News from CNN" with Thelma Gutierrez, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2004.

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• I've already heard from some military commanders who feel they've been undercut by the vice president of the United States, and there's a lot of justification for their view.

  John McCain

  Military, Views, President

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• If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.

  Barbara Bush

  Thinking, Wife, President

  "Barbara Bush On Obama’s Reelection: ‘People Spoke. Move On, Get On With It’" by Melanie Warner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2012.

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

  Joe Biden

  Mean, President, Vices

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• President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be a part of his team. He told me at the outset, he wanted me to sign on to be a part of his team - and he was true to his word, kept it. He was tough. He was decisive. He was also a pretty good politician.

  Dick Cheney

  Team, Opportunity, President

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• Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.

  Uri Geller

  Agency, Psychics, Mind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny, but in his civilian life Gore has discovered the voice that voters had trouble hearing when he ran for president in 2000. The voice he has found is clear, impassioned, and moving.

  Graydon Carter

  Moving, Voice, Years

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• 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

  Kings, Moving, Careers

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• I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself.

  Scott McClellan

  President, Vices, Information

  Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.3, PublicAffairs

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• Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.

  William Blum

  Compassion, People, Empathy

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• As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him.

  Dick Cheney

  Time, Government, President

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• 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

  Team, President, Vices

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• I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

  Demetri Martin

  School, Law, President

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is-I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, People, Political

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