Quotes About Power

Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!

Being president does seem a lot more stressful than being vice president.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

Joe Biden abused the power of the Office of the Vice President, enabling bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors, by allowing his son to influence the domestic policy of a foreign nation and accept various benefits - including financial compensation - from foreign nationals in exchange for certain favors.

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.

The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

I think that reality is divorced from former vice president Joe Biden who hob knobs with these Hollywood dictators.

Here in Brazil, the president and the vice president are elected together.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

That's politics. Your friend one day is your enemy the next and vice versa.

I have read somewhere that every thought in the human mind has a frequency. And it emits a certain kind of energy. And the Universe responds to the energy accordingly. No wonder why it is the thought that leads to action and not vice versa.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution.

Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle?

Is the purpose of free elections to allow the most clever and vicious person to aggregate power, or is the purpose of free elections to enable the American people to have a serious conversation about their country's future and try to find both a policy and a personality that they think will carry to them that better future?

As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about get hurt.