One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.

Ethel Merman

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Friedrich von Schiller

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

Gerard De Nerval

If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.

Federico Fellini

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are to finishing it. You take Diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Will Rogers

Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the new applications of the truth, Heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.

Henry Ward Beecher

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Napoleon Hill

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

Daniel Keys Moran

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen

All life is bound to a simple truth... that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend.

M.J. Chrisman

In a world where the outrageous has become the norm, stable organizations make no sense.

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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Otto von Bismarck