Feb 4, 1947 - Present
America\'s 44th Vice President
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I'm the Vice-President. They know it, and they know that I know it.
The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.
Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different sets of situations and I tell you what, I'm not going to go out and hold a news conference about it. I'm going to put it in a safe and keep it there! Does that answer your question?
Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a-it is different than the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation.
If Ross Perot runs, that's good for us. If he doesn't run, it's good for us.
Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.
We all lived in this century, I didn't live in this century,
Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism.
The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought.
What a terrible thing it is to lose one's mind...
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
I also try to discipline myself when I get into a situation ... and I'm trying to think of an answer, instead of being verbose, which is a tendency that I have, to be concise. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977.
This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.
Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.
Pakistan always seems to have a lot of political complexities and political challenges. But Pakistan is important for a number of reasons. Primarily, it is a nuclear power. And if, in fact, al Qaeda and Taliban, which are in Pakistan and causing a lot of tragedies and deaths in Pakistan - if they would ever somehow have real influence and control of that government, then we [world] really have a problem.
Iraq at one time was actually a functioning government. It's a real state. Afghanistan is not Iraq. It's tribal. It's got a different - a number of different sects, never really had a solid government there running the country on any kind of a continuing basis. Well, to rebuild the nation of Afghanistan is going to be more difficult than rebuilding the nation of Iraq.
What the media wants and what the media demands of Christians is very simply this: your silence.
You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
The peace dividend is peace.
Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled
I stand by all the misstatements that I've made
The two-party system has served America very well. We always have political movements one way or another but the evolution of a lasting third party probably will not happen.
I used to smoke marijuana, but that was when I was in college,<br />before it was a drug.
Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? ... Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits coursing through our system annually?
Who's responsible for the riots? The rioters!
Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.