Vice President Quotes - Page 8

• My judgment is that neither House of Congress, nor both combined, have any right to interfere in the count. It is for the Vice-President to do it all.... There should be no compromise of our Constitutional rights.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Rights, House, President

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• Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

  John Welch

  Business, Book, Thinking

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• It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.

  Rachel Dolezal

  Justice, President, Vices

  "Rachel Dolezal Resigns as Spokane NAACP President" by Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. June 15, 2015.

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• The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I learned at the feet of the most leftist professors at Yale and am learning again from Sarah Palin during the Vice Presidential debate, and I find that very disorienting.

  John Hodgman

  Yale, Ideas, Feet

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  President, Vices, Difficult

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Sarah Palin has managed to use her failed vice presidential run to put herself in a position of power and influence. Joe Biden won the race and he hasn't been able to put himself in a position of power and influence.

  Craig Ferguson

  Running, Race, Position Of Power

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• I enjoyed my new position as vice president, but it took me a while to get used to the fact that I no longer had the voting privileges I had enjoyed for 10 years as a senator.

  Harry S. Truman

  Years, Voting, President

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• The broader question if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids or will she be shortchanging the country?

  Amy Robach

  Country, Kids, President

  "'Today' Show Again Bashes Palin: Shortchange Family or America?". www.newsbusters.org. September 3, 2008.

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• Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn't say, 'I'm black and I'm running for president.' It couldn't come out of his mouth. He couldn't say that because, if he did, he'd lose votes.

  Paul Mooney

  Running, Black, President

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• Last night's vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin drew much higher ratings than the presidential debate. Did you know that? Yeah. Yeah, Biden attracted viewers who enjoyed his previous debate appearances, and Palin attracted viewers who enjoyed the movie 'Fargo.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Night, Presidential, Biden

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• I watched that new reality show on ABC with Charlie Gibson, 'America's Next Top Vice President.' ... Oh, what an exciting show that is! Did you see Sarah Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson? Did you all watch that? In fact, John McCain was watching it at home, and at one point, he turned to his wife and said, 'She looks really familiar.'

  Jay Leno

  Home, Reality, America

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• You know, Sarah Palin is the Governor of Alaska, you know that. And she's a lifelong member of the National Rifle Association. So great, is what I'm thinking, another vice president that shoots a drinking buddy; just get ready.

  David Letterman

  Drinking, Thinking, Alaska

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• As you all know by now, Barack Obama sent out a cell phone text message at 3 a.m. on Saturday morning to tell everyone he picked Joe Biden as his vice president. How do you think this makes Hillary Clinton feel, huh? Finally, she gets a telephone call at 3 a.m., it's to tell her they picked Joe Biden.

  Jay Leno

  Morning, Thinking, Phones

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• I'm not interested in Vice President. I'm hanging around Arizona. I'm running again for Sheriff.

  Joe Arpaio

  Running, President, Vices

  "Transcript: Sheriff Joe Arpaio interviewed by Jorge Ramos on Univision". Interview with Jorge Ramos, www.univision.com. January 28, 2016.

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• One of my roles as vice president is to - is to be an interlocutor with the Senate and the House because everybody up there knows I respect them and I enjoy it. And I have a lot of good friends on both sides of the aisle up there.

  Joe Biden

  Good Friend, House, President

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• The response to my op-ed by global warming alarmists has been interesting. Former Vice President Al Gore has called me a "denier" and informs us that climate change is "a principle in physics. It's like gravity. It exists." Perhaps he's right. Climate change is like gravity - a naturally occurring phenomenon that existed long before, and will exist long after, any governmental attempts to affect it.

  Sarah Palin

  Long, Interesting, President

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• The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.

  Fred Allen

  Average, Growth, President

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• Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Daughter, Running, Father

  Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 19 July 1984 at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco

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• Look, in particular, at the people who, like you, are making average incomes for doing average jobs- bank vice presidents, insurance salesmen, auditors, secretaries of defense- and you'll realie they all dress the same way, essentially the way the mannequins in the Sears menswear department dress. Now look at the real successes, the people who make a lot more money than you- Elton John, Captain Kangaroo, anybody from Saudi Arabia, Big Bird, and so on. They all dress funny- and they all succeed.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Real, Average

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• The Vice-President is supreme boss of the Senate.

  Sarah Palin

  Boss, President, Vices

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• The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

  Christopher Buckley

  Time Zones, Brain, President

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• Middle names are kind of like vice presidents: It's a fine distinction and certainly an honor, but you're never not aware that someone else got the real job.

  Paul Reiser

  Jobs, Real, Names

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• Bush proposed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Some saw the move as an attempt to preserve traditional values, while others saw it as a cynical ploy to ensure that Vice President... Cheney will never have to pay for his gay daughter's wedding.

  Jon Stewart

  Daughter, Moving, Gay

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• You know what kills me about Jennifer Lopez? The fact that this woman wakes up one day and she's like, 'You know what? From now on, I'd like people to call me J-Lo,' and then they do it. Only a celebrity can get away with this. George Bush doesn't come out for his morning press conferences: 'From now on, I'd like to be referred to as G-Bu. Y'all know my vice president, Dog Chain.

  Carol Leifer

  Dog, Morning, People

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• The White House admitted that Vice President Biden's endorsement of gay marriage forced him to come out in favor of it. So in a related story millions of Americans are trying to get Biden hooked on pot.

  Conan O'Brien

  Gay, White, House

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