Vice President Quotes - Page 7

• When George Bush Senior [George HW Bush] was getting his alliance together to go into Iraq - to kick the Iraqis out of Kuwait - he rang me up. I was very close to George Bush Senior; I got to know him well as Vice President to Ronald Reagan. And George rang me up and said, "Oh, Bob," he said, "I'm having trouble with Brian [Mulroney]." He said, "He's got a big wheat trade with Iraq, and he doesn't want to upset that." I said, "You leave it with me."

  Bob Hawke

  Senior, Kuwait, Iraq

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• Tim Kaine is an excellent choice for vice president.

  Julian Castro

  Choices, President, Vices

  "Julian Castro On Obama's Legacy, Latino Voter Turnout". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 27, 2016.

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• I mean the former presidents are going to be there [on Donald Trump inauguration]. The Clintons are going to be there. Jimmy Carter is going to be there. If Donald Trump needs a lesson in John Lewis and what he has done beyond talk, he could ask his own vice president.Mike Pence went to Selma in 2010 with John Lewis, was there on the Pettus Bridge, talked about him as somebody who has the moral authority and courage that continues to inspire millions of Americans.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Mean, Bridges, Inspire

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• President-elect Trump has the vision. And what Mike Pence brings to the table as vice president-elect is somebody who knows Capitol Hill. So he can take Donald Trump's vision, help translate that into actual policy, legislative language, bill text, working through the process so that it ends up back on Donald Trump's desk so that he can sign it into law.

  Jeb Hensarling

  Law, Vision, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• For a guy that grew up on 31st Street and Everroad Park West and played on Haw Creek and dreamed some day of serving in Washington D.C., from my boyhood, to have the opportunity to have represented my hometown in our nation's capital, and now to have the opportunity to serve the entire nation as vice president is ... it's just deeply humbling.

  Mike Pence

  Opportunity, Guy, President

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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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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• 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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• I travel a lot on foreign policy, as you know. I'm in Europe a lot. I travelled over a million miles as vice president. They didn't do stimulus. Look where they are. Come on. I mean, this is like, I just get so frustrated. Like come on.

  Joe Biden

  Mean, Europe, Frustrated

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

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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 want to tell the vice president and everybody else that when I'm president there will be a controlling legal authority.

  John McCain

  President, Vices, Want

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think that there's only one person that defines the role of vice president of the United States. And, you know, we come in to [Donald Trump's] administration with a servant's heart, really prepared to serve and to support the president's agenda and his objectives in every way that he believes is appropriate.

  Mike Pence

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• In fact, presidents and vice presidents are automatically audited by the IRS, which hasn't stopped other chief executives from making them public.

  John Yang

  President

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• I have always been supported by the men in my life, which is why I think I've been successful in many of my endeavors. My father believed I could do anything. He even wrote to Al Gore and told him that he thought I should be his vice president.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Father, Successful, Men

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The White House again refused to turn over discussions Vice President Cheney had with Enron officials over energy policy. Cheney said if he had to disclose every time some business donated a ton of money then came in to write its own policy to govern itself, he wouldn't get any work done.

  Dennis Miller

  Writing, White, House

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• 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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• I would guess it didn't exactly represent a profile in courage for the vice president to wander over there to the F-word network for a sit down with Brit Hume. I mean, that's a little like Bonnie interviewing Clyde, ain't it?

  Jack Cafferty

  Mean, President, Vices

  "Journalists Jealous Cheney Went to FNC, Take Shots at Integrity of FNC & Brit Hume" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. February 16, 2006.

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