I’ve found just the right partner to help me shake up Washington – Governor Sarah Palin of the great state of Alaska … She has an executive experience and a real record of accomplishment. She’s tackled tough problems, like energy independence and corruption. She’s balanced a budget, cut taxes, and she's taken on the special interests. She’s reached across the aisle and asked Republicans, Democrats, and independents to serve in her administration. She’s the wonderful mother of five children. She’s … she’s helped run a small business. She’s worked with her hands and knows, and knows what it’s like to worry about mortgage payments, and health care, and the cost of gasoline and groceries. She knows where she comes from, and she knows who she works for. She stands up for what’s right, and she doesn’t let anyone tell her to sit down. John McCain, Republican Convention 2008
The vice-president has two duties. One is to inquire daily as to the health of the president, and the other is to attend the funerals of Third World dictators. And neither of those do I find an enjoyable exercise. John McCain
The purpose of this book is to rescue the Vice-Presidency from the overwhelmingly negative impression people have of the office and its occupants. The Vice-Presidency, and Vice-Presidents, matter. Jody C Baumgartner, The Vice-Presidency Reconsidered
Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice-president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again. Thomas Marshall
Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy. Lloyd Bentsen, to Dan Quayle, VP debate, cited How to Lose the Presidency
Dan Quayle in Space: ‘… Makes me feel kind of small and insignificant.’ Spitting Image s6e2, ITV 1989
I don’t have a fucking shred of real influence. House of Cards US s1e9: Chapter 9, vice-president to Peter, Netflix 2013
Trust me or not but I’m about to be confirmed as the vice-president, and our relationship extends to the Oval Office now. Don’t step out of the sunlight for no reason. Let’s start this new chapter with a clean slate. House of Cards US s2e1: Chapter 14, Frank to Zoe
One heartbeat away from the presidency not a single vote cast in my name. Democracy is so overrated. House of Cards US s2e2: Chapter 15, Frank’s swearing-in ceremony
There are two types of vice-presidents: doormats and matadors. House of Cards s2e3: Chapter 16, Frank
Biden is convinced that come January there will be a black woman vice-president and that it will be him. Frankie Boyle’s New World Order s4e5, BBC 2020
In television interviews she [Palin] was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn’t say what she read because she didn’t read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it. It was evidence of her authenticity … In another age it might not have been terrible, but here and now it was actually rather horrifying. Peggy Noonan