
Some people like to talk about personalities.
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Quotes from current and former Vice Presidents.
Former vice presidents

Some people like to talk about personalities.

We must exercise great care against any use of this power to destroy the world, to poison the world's atmosphere, or to cripple any single human being.

The American nation seeks constantly to foster the development of free nations cooperating for their mutual benefit.

There is much in Georgia to remind me of Texas--the people are loyal, the people are hospitable, and the people are kind.

With patience and good sense, and the help of God, we will not have to use what we have created to defend ourselves.

Government of the people must not be government by ultimatum.

But we have issues, and we are going to spend a few minutes' time that we have before we go to Augusta and to Columbia exercising our right of free speech in a free country to talk about those issues.

We rejoice that Zambia has become free and now joins the other independent states of Africa in seeking a better life for its people.

We will keep America strong against any danger.

I pledge my friendship and that of my people and country in the years ahead.

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

Instead, we have chosen the slower but surer path of progress through a more competitive, efficient, and prosperous domestic economy.

He has given a demonstration of leadership and statesmanship that is respected from Maine to California.

We will keep America on the tried and the tested and the trusted course of responsibility, and in this nuclear age, neither we nor the world can afford even a moment of recklessness, not even a breath of bluff or bluster.

Our interest in your example is greatly heightened by our own efforts to eliminate racial discrimination in the United States.

Your President will have in his hand, inescapably, the power of life and death for hundreds of millions of people on this planet.

Today I have been visiting the part of America that we love, the South.