Famous quotes by Vice Presidents

Vice Presidents

Collected reflections and statements from vice presidents offer a window into leadership, duty, and the balance between counsel and command. These quotes span diplomacy, domestic policy, and moments of crisis, revealing how second-in-command roles shape decisions and public trust. Readers from any background can draw insight, debate, or inspiration from voices that have stood beside heads of state or led major institutions. Consider how context, constraint, and opportunity colored their words, and let the ideas encourage thoughtful conversation.

"We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

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"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members"

Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President

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"You do the policy, I'll do the politics"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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"A zebra does not change its spots"

Al Gore, Vice President

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"Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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"The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything"

Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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"What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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"When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler"

Al Gore, Vice President

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"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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"I was known as the chief grave robber of my state"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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"There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look""

Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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"Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided"

Charles Curtis, Vice President

"What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar"

Thomas R. Marshall, Vice President

"The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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"The future will be better tomorrow"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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"We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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"Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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"I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

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"I believe very deeply in the proposition that what we did in Iraq was the right thing to do. It was hard to do. It took a long time. There were significant costs involved"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

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"Freedom is not something that can be given, it is something that must be fought for"

Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President

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"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo"

Al Gore, Vice President

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"A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government"

Al Gore, Vice President

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"Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason"

Charles Curtis, Vice President

"You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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