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Quotes by Vice-president
"The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything."
68
"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."
52
"The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny."
49
"My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right."
49
"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."
47
"It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back."
45
"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."
45
"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."
42
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."
42
"This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!"
41
"I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service."
39
"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure."
39
"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."
38
"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made."
37
"If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail."
37
"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."
37
"People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite."
36
"What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is."
Mind,
36
"A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues."
35
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
35
"Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
34
"Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton."
34
"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."
33
"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."
32
"Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait."
31
"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."
30
"Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to."
30
"The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism."
29
"Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys."
29
"We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary."
29
"No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax."
28
"I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; "consistent" is not one of them."
28
"I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future."
28
"There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful."
27
"It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice."
27
"Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination."
26
"The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty."
26
"Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins."
26
"I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office."
26
"We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America."
26
"The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way."
26
"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."
26
"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
26
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