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Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves. -- Patrick Leahy
I appreciate my brother, His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the U.A.E. and Ruler of Dubai, and the Council of Ministers, who face every morning challenges, but plan and remove all obstacles to score achievements. -- Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
The Vice-President is supreme boss of the Senate. -- Sarah Palin
I'm the Vice-President. They know it, and they know that I know it. -- Dan Quayle
The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining. -- Chester A. Arthur
[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
Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again. -- Thomas R. Marshall
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
Two persons have been elected to the offices of President and Vice-President exclusively by the people of ONE SECTION of the country...A clearer case of foreign domination could not well be presented. -- John Willis Ellis
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
I remember when you could always rely on those little street kids to pop a few people for the latest Nikes," Vice-President John said. "Now people get mugged for Reeboks, for Adidas - for generics, for Christ's sake. -- Max Barry
Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice-President of the United States. Should have stuck?as Speaker of the House? Gave up the second most important job in Government foreight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire. -- John Nance Garner
Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do. -- Will Rogers
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'. -- Dan Quayle
I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association. -- Demetri Martin
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. -- Fred Allen
I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process. -- Barton Gellman
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
I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me. -- Joyce Banda
My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s. -- Robert Englund
Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
My team members are Hector Soto, who is a boxing promoter and Vice-president of Miguel Cotto Promotions. He runs all my business. He was the person that my father left in charge of it all. Bryan Perez is my right-hand man. -- Miguel Cotto
I'm from North Carolina, and I stand here humbled, honored, and proud to place in nomination for the office of vice-president of the United States of America, my friend and my senator from the great state of North Carolina: John Edwards. -- Harvey Gantt
Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar. -- James Surowiecki
If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in two theaters of war, has had multiple meetings with Dick Cheney, the former vice-president of the United States, to discuss Petraeus's candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency. -- Eric Massa
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
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
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
What does the vice president do? -- Sarah Palin
Tim Kaine is an excellent choice for vice president. -- Julian Castro
Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Office of the Vice President... The Council on Competativeness. -- Dan Quayle
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Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government. -- John Nance Garner
People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president. -- Susan Estrich
I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter. -- Mary Cheney
The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain. -- Christopher Buckley
I happen to be a Republican President... ah... the Vice President. -- Dan Quayle
I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president, -- Dick Armey
Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it! -- Geraldine Ferraro
It's easy being vice president - you don't have to do anything. -- Joe Biden
Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job. -- Henry Rollins
I have no intention of being vice president. I have said it clearly. -- Marco Rubio
Joe Biden would probably be running a Denny's if he wasn't Vice President. -- Bill Whittle
I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality. -- George W. Bush
The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro, -- Sean Penn
I asked that I not be considered for vice president of the United States. -- John McCain
In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history. -- Phil Donahue
I'm not interested in Vice President. I'm hanging around Arizona. I'm running again for Sheriff. -- Joe Arpaio
The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady. -- Dick Morris
If the president and the Vice President dies who becomes President" "Thats easy Arnold Swartzanager -- Dan Gutman
I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything. -- Al Sharpton
I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both. -- Bob Dole
And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for. -- Barack Obama
What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married. -- Gloria Steinem
Mike Pence is a good man, a principled conservative, and he will make a great vice president. -- Paul Ryan
Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous. -- Mark McKinnon
I'm not interested in being Donald Trump or anybody else's vice president, that's not what I'm aiming at... -- Marco Rubio
In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president. -- Pat Paulsen
Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed. -- Robert Byrd
The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one. -- Ann Whitman
We've had experiences where the president's been shot, but never had a situation where the vice president shot somebody. -- Dick Cheney
Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president. -- Susan Estrich
Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally. -- Joe Biden
I'm not running for Vice President, I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president, I want to be the president... -- Marco Rubio
I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president. -- Alexander Haig
You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one. -- Ed Rendell
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. -- Johnny Carson
[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job. -- Dean Acheson
Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues. -- David Ogilvy
Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts. -- Ron Fournier
I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian. -- John McCain
The Senate gathered to say goodbye to Vice President Joe Biden. Biden has been a presence there for more than 40 years. -- Ari Shapiro
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
I want to tell the vice president and everybody else that when I'm president there will be a controlling legal authority. -- John McCain
The broader question if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids or will she be shortchanging the country? -- Amy Robach
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 role of the vice president is to break ties in the Senate and inquire daily into the health of the president. -- John McCain
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
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
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
We now know that Mike Pence - Vice President-elect Mike Pence is going to be in charge of the transition replacing Chris Christie. -- George Stephanopoulos
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
I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl. -- Evangeline Lilly
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
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
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both. -- Bill Gates
My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won. -- Tyra Banks
Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby. -- Gloria Steinem
The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about. -- Timothy Noah
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
How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently. -- Eleanor Mondale
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
Today was opening day for the new Congress in Washington. And Vice President Joe Biden swore in the new batch of White House fence jumpers. -- David Letterman
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
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
You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd run for president. -- Geraldine Ferraro
I worked in the White House on 9/11, where the vice president was given the authority to, if he deemed necessary, shoot down an American passenger jet. -- Nicolle Wallace
Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded. -- Bob Hope
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
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
One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of the Kochs' favourite politicians. -- Jane Mayer
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. -- Emperor Norton
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. -- Emperor Norton
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
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I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class. -- Olivia Holt
Vice President Biden is the real deal. He'll give it to you straight. He communicates in a way that I think connects with people at a real level. -- Michael Nutter
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
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
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
In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting him from service during his draft-eligible years. -- Charlie Savage
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
My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me. -- Jessica Walter
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents. -- Omar N. Bradley
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
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
My preference would be to remain in the Senate, ... But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of those (Cabinet) capacities. It's not the same as vice president. -- John McCain

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