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Quotes by Vice-president
"We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary."
48
"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."
47
"Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys."
47
"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."
46
"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
46
"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."
45
"I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future."
44
"If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check."
44
"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,
44
"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."
43
"Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination."
43
"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
43
"Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists."
42
"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!"
42
"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."
42
"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."
41
"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."
41
"You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents."
41
"We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country."
41
"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information."
41
"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."
40
"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."
40
"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
40
"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
40
"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."
39
"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."
39
"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."
39
"The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people."
38
"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."
38
"Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement."
38
"In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself."
38
"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."
37
"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."
37
"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."
37
"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."
37
"The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us."
37
"Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity."
37
"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."
37
"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."
36
"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."
36
"It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes."
36
"It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."
36
"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.'"
35
"Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better."
35
"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."
35
"A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end."
35
"There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look"."
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