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• Once again, the vice president has acknowledged that he dares to follow where Bill Bradley has boldly led. ... The only consistency in Al Gore's positions is that he has consistently been less willing to lead with bold proposals of his own, but consistently followed in the footsteps of other leaders.

  Anita Dunn

  Leader, Consistency, President

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• [On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Thinking, President, Vices

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• On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.

  Fred Allen

  President, Ships, Vices

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• Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House.

  Alexander Haig

  Order, White, House

  "Trends Of 2010: The Political Year In Review". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 15, 2010.

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• A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good old days.

  George W. Bush

  Approval Rating, Years, President

  "Straight Outta Congress: bustin' rhymes with MC Rove" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2007.

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• I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a turnip truck to take these jobs.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Jobs, President, Vices

  The New Republic, In response to Jeffrey Goldberg's question, October 8, 2007.

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• The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Office, Honor, President

  "Random Recollections of an Old Political Reporter". Book by William C. Hudson, 1911.

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• You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give carte blanche to an assistant of his to declassify whatever he wants.

  Joe Biden

  Giving, President, Vices

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. February 16, 2006.

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• 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

  Stars, Rocks, Years

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• When liberals start acting like they're opposed to pre-marital sex and mothers having careers, you know McCain's vice presidential choice has knocked them back on their heels.

  Ann Coulter

  Mother, Sex, Careers

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• Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument of the common good, rooted in our oldest values of opportunity, responsibility and community, devoted to fiscal responsibility, determined to give our people the tools they need to make the most of their own lives in the 21st century, a 21st century government for 21st century America.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Opportunity, America

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.62, Best Books on

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• If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book 'Going Rogaine.'

  Sarah Palin

  Book, President, Vices

  "Palin cracks wise at Gridiron dinner" by Jeanne Cummings and Andrew Glass, www.politico.com. December 5, 1009.

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• Joe Biden would probably be running a Denny's if he wasn't Vice President.

  Bill Whittle

  Running, President, Vices

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• 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

  Men, President, Vices

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• Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

  Edwin Newman

  President, Vices, Triumph

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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

  Bob Dole

  Running, People, President

  "Bob Dole: Great American" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. June 25, 2012.

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• Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!

  Linwood Barclay

  Smart, Average, Car

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• You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I think he has a great story. He's bright. He's articulate.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Country, Thinking, President

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. August 5, 2012.

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• As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it's always meant very bad news for the ticket. Think of Spiro Agnew's foot-in-mouth disease; Tom Eagleton's medical history; the real estate holdings of Geraldine Ferraro's husband; the unbearable lightness of Dan Quayle; Sarah Palin's reading list.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Husband, Real, Reading

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• Since Vice President Al Gore is constantly making things up, it should come as no surprise that he wants Supreme Court justices who will do the same. As Gore put it, he will appoint judges who view the Constitution as a 'document that grows'.

  Ann Coulter

  Views, Justice, Judging

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

  Phil Donahue

  President, Vices, Shaving

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• 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

  Country, Children, Gentleman

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• If you want to - if you want to engage in conspiracy theories that the White House and the vice president intended no one to ever know - like "The New York Times" - we would have been kept in the dark forever. I just think that's completely irrational.

  Kate O'Beirne

  New York, Dark, Thinking

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. February 17, 2006.

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• When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy

  Jack Ruby

  President, Vices, Beloved

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• I think Mike Pence figured that best case scenario he is vice president and worst case scenario he can say he tried to rein Donald Trump in for the good of the party.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Party, Thinking, President

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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