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Quotes by Vice-president
"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."
17
"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."
17
"There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful."
17
"When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there."
17
"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."
16
"I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; "consistent" is not one of them."
16
"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."
16
"If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check."
16
"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."
16
"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."
16
"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."
16
"We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary."
16
"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."
15
"I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest."
15
"Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement."
15
"Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide."
15
"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."
15
"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information."
15
"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."
15
"Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better."
14
"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."
14
"The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people."
14
"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,
14
"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."
14
"You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents."
14
"Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists."
14
"We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country."
14
"As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change."
14
"It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."
14
"I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again."
13
"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."
13
"There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look"."
13
"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."
13
"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."
13
"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."
13
"I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."
13
"We have to make America the best place in the world to do business."
13
"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
13
"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."
13
"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
13
"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."
12
"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,
12
"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."
12
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