Quotes About Vice Presidency

#1. Nixon became the first (and to date, only) former Vice President to be elected President (every other Vice President who moved into the Presidency either succeeded upon his predecessor's death, or won election directly from the Vice Presidency).

George Washington

#2. In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.

Dan Quayle

#3. There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It's all a reflection of your relationship with the president. I mean, Kennedy never let Johnson in the office.

Joe Biden

#4. The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Bill Vaughan

#5. He loved politics in large part exactly because it meant time spent with men like Cactus Jack Garner(who would be remembered for observing that the vice presidency was not worth a pitcher of warm piss).

David McCullough

#6. The vice presidency "ought to be abolished," he told his friend Leonard Wood. "The man who occupies it may at any moment be everything; but meanwhile he is practically nothing.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#7. Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position, and so, therein lies the rub.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#8. The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.

John Nance Garner

#9. To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.

Gerald R. Ford

#10. The vice-presidency isnt worth a bucket of warm piss,

John Nance Garner

#11. What you do to China is you say if you don't behave we're going to have to start taxing your goods coming into our country.

Donald Trump

#12. The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.

Blaise Pascal

#13. I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.

Ben Folds

#14. Even if you do not feel it now, there is pleasure to be had from being a decent person.

Jojo Moyes

#15. What else was there beside books and work?

Katarina Bivald

#16. If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.

John Tyler

#17. It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.

Rachel Dolezal

#18. The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.

Richard G. Scott

#19. The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.

Elliot Richardson

#20. Be very focused. Do your homework so your research and claims are unassailable. Make sure it is bulletproof and then make sure you are really focused. The thing I find is that the issues are usually so large that you try to cover a lot of ground. That's a natural impulse.

Amy Ziering

#21. If you are only born once, you will die twice. But if you are born twice, you will only die once.

Steven J. Lawson

#22. Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out - in us, in someone else, in the Universe.

Melody Beattie

#23. As a believer, you have the authority to tell the devil what to do in the name of Jesus

Pedro Okoro

#24. one of the less well-advertised secrets of group sex was how often it came down to logistics.

Alexis Hall

#25. You don't sell as many records as you used to because of illegal downloads, but I think there are other ways you can make money through your music. Whether it's through merchandise or teaming up with other companies or brands or whatever, there are ways.

Eliza Doolittle

#26. Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the
gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy,
wise counsel.

Sallust

#27. How many times have we come away from an argument wishing we had said and done something different?

Leonard Nimoy

#28. There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.

Leo Buscaglia

#29. Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

Lyndon B. Johnson