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Quotes by Vice-president
"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."
57
"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."
55
"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."
53
"If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check."
53
"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
53
"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."
52
"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."
52
"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."
51
"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
51
"You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents."
51
"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,
50
"Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists."
50
"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."
49
"I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future."
49
"Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!"
49
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"
48
"Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination."
48
"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."
48
"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."
48
"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."
47
"We have to make America the best place in the world to do business."
47
"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."
47
"Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity."
47
"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information."
47
"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."
47
"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."
46
"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."
46
"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
46
"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
46
"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."
46
"Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better."
45
"There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look"."
45
"The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people."
45
"It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes."
45
"We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country."
45
"The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society."
44
"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."
44
"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."
44
"The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us."
44
"In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself."
44
"Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win."
44
"In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster."
43
"They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead."
43
"Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity."
43
"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."
43
"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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