Elected Vice President

Famous quotes containing the words elected, vice and/or president:

    “I was elected a Captain of Volunteers—a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “My Poynz, I cannot frame me tune to fayne,
    To cloke the trothe for praisse withowt desart,
    Of them that lyst all vice for to retayne.
    I cannot honour them that settes their part
    With Venus and Baccus all theire lyf long;
    Nor holld my pece of them allthoo I smart.”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “You don’t need to know who’s playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles.”
    —James Baker (b. 1930)