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Quotes by Vice-president
"The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny."
38
"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."
38
"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."
36
"It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back."
32
"The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything."
31
"My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right."
31
"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure."
30
"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."
29
"What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is."
Mind,
28
"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."
27
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."
27
"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."
26
"This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!"
26
"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."
25
"People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite."
24
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
24
"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."
23
"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."
23
"Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton."
22
"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."
22
"The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty."
21
"I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future."
21
"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."
21
"I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service."
21
"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."
21
"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."
21
"The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats."
20
"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."
20
"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made."
20
"We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America."
20
"Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys."
20
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
19
"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."
19
"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."
19
"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."
19
"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."
19
"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
19
"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."
18
"Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination."
18
"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."
18
"Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins."
18
"The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security."
18
"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."
18
"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."
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