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Quotes by Vice-president
"We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country."
19
"It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."
19
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
19
"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."
19
"The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan."
18
"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."
18
"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."
18
"Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love."
18
"Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States."
18
"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."
18
"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."
18
"Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity."
18
"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."
18
"Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity."
18
"How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?"
18
"It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship."
18
"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."
18
"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."
18
"Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided."
17
"Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise."
17
"It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes."
17
"The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us."
17
"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."
17
"In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself."
17
"Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community."
17
"I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again."
16
"The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society."
16
"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."
16
"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."
16
"Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world."
16
"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."
16
"I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy."
16
"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."
15
"You know we're going to control the insurance companies."
15
"The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned."
15
"A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end."
15
"No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security."
15
"Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends."
15
"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."
15
"We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels."
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