Vicepresident Quotes
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If you want to be vice-president, stand out here in the rain in your underwear and let everybody see what you're made of.
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Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice-President of the United States. Should have stuck?as Speaker of the House? Gave up the second most important job in Government foreight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire.
john nance garner— 1963 In the Saturday Evening Post, 2 Nov.
That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace "the dark side" almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.
Andrew Sullivan— "Imaginationland," The Daily Dish (2007-10-25)
The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job . In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.
Peter Drucker— p.327 (The Practice of Management (1954))
The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.
chester a. arthur— Quoted in Random Recollections of an Old Political Reporter, William C. Hudson (1911).
