On the record
Vice Presidents
Quotes from current and former Vice Presidents.
Former vice presidents

This year their slogan is, 'Two families in every garage.'

A free society requires the supremacy of the civil rather than the military authority.

I believe that atomic energy should be used for the benefit of all the people.

Slums are the breeding spots of crime, sickness, and chaos in every large city in America.

The atomic bomb is the most terrible and devastating weapon that man has ever contrived.

What happened to the Republican Party in Wisconsin has been repeated on a national level.

For the first time in history you are going to have a chance to decide whether you want a government run by the people or whether you want a government run by special interest.

I am more than happy to have this opportunity to talk to the people of Wisconsin.

The fact is that after 16 years of Democratic Government, this whole country is prosperous, and I want to keep it that way.

What kind of hope is there when we brag about passing a mark set 22 years ago, when the needs, the job, and the problems were very much smaller?

There is nothing more un-American than a city slum.

You, the people, are the Government; and when you exercise your right to vote, you run the Government, and when you don't exercise your vote--as you didn't exercise it in 1946--you get such things as that 80th Congress, and you get just…

I think you are going to go to the polls and vote for the American way of life.

Well, let me tell you something--I'm not licked yet by any means.

Wisconsin needs to regain her position in leadership in the cause of liberalism in the United States.

They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.

Through those long dark months of war never once was a blast furnace kept a single minute, because of lack of ore.





