Famous quotes containing the words elected, vice and/or president:
“The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.”
—Lady Bird Johnson (b. 1912)
“There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of lifes circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehementlywithout his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgmentthe sober second thoughtof the people.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)