Vice President Quotes

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.
My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.
My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.
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