"I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years."

"This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!"

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

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."

"When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is."

"I deserve respect for the things I did not do."

"We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say."

"Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look."

"Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!"

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."

"Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win."

"When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there."

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

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."

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

"El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice."

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."

"Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever."

"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."

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

"It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."

"If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime."

"We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward."

"We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country."

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

"Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists."

"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."

"Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton."

"We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America."

"Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement."

"People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite."

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."

"What you guys want, I'm for."

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."

"I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service."

"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."

"The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda."

"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made."

"They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we're going to continue to help."

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

"It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America."

"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."

"If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check."

"It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back."

"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame."

"I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future."

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

"My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right."

"I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman."

"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it."