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Quotes by Vice-president
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
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"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."
25
"The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats."
25
"Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists."
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"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."
25
"From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world."
24
"I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest."
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"If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check."
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"In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority."
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"Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide."
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"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information."
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"The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives."
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"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."
23
"When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around."
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"There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look"."
23
"It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it."
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"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."
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"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."
Help,
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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."
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"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."
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"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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"We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy."
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"The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power."
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"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."
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"The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people."
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"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends."
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"You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make."
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"You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents."
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"The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other."
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"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."
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"Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement."
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"We have to make America the best place in the world to do business."
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"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
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"With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power."
20
"If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people."
20
"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
20
"I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad."
War,
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"It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups."
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"Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better."
19
"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."
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"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
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"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."
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"If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force."
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"Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?"
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