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Quotes by Vice-president
"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."
26
"The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny."
24
"The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything."
21
"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."
19
"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."
19
"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."
19
"People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite."
17
"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."
16
"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."
15
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."
15
"It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back."
14
"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."
14
"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."
14
"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."
13
"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure."
13
"What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is."
Mind,
12
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
12
"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."
12
"Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination."
11
"If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States."
11
"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."
11
"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."
11
"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."
11
"We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America."
11
"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information."
11
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
11
"I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest."
10
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
10
"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."
10
"The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people."
10
"The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent."
10
"As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change."
10
"America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning."
10
"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."
10
"This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact."
9
"The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned."
9
"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."
9
"Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States."
9
"I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; "consistent" is not one of them."
9
"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."
9
"Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement."
9
"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."
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