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Quotes by Vice-president
"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."
9
"It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."
9
"There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve."
9
"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."
8
"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,
8
"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."
8
"There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look"."
8
"The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty."
8
"The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats."
8
"As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy."
8
"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."
8
"I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future."
8
"If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check."
8
"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."
8
"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."
8
"You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents."
8
"Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide."
8
"In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself."
8
"The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century."
8
"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."
8
"Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster."
8
"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
8
"We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary."
8
"I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again."
7
"What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us."
7
"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."
7
"This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us."
7
"How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?"
7
"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
7
"This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!"
7
"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."
7
"Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better."
6
"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."
6
"A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end."
6
"Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love."
6
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