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Quotes by Vice-president
"A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end."
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"Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love."
6
"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,
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"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."
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"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."
6
"Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton."
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"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."
6
"Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?"
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"What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar."
6
"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."
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"We have to make America the best place in the world to do business."
6
"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."
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"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
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"Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys."
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"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."
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"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."
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"It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship."
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"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."
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"I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy."
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"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."
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"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.'"
5
"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."
5
"You know we're going to control the insurance companies."
5
"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."
5
"Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided."
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"The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other."
5
"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."
5
"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."
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"Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins."
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"Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity."
5
"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."
5
"The presidency is more than a popularity contest."
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"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made."
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"I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service."
5
"It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes."
5
"Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists."
5
"Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again."
5
"It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice."
5
"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."
5
"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!"
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"The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan."
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"I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe."
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