Elected Vice President

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

    “The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.”
    —Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)

    “The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media’s diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.”
    —Kate Millett (b. 1934)

    “Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)