Sitting Vice President

Famous quotes containing the words vice president, sitting, vice and/or president:

    “If the vice president thinks it’s disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear a child, and if he believes that a woman cannot adequately raise a child without a father, then he’d better make sure that abortion remains safe and legal.”
    —Diane British (b. 1948)

    “I think I see her sitting bowed and black,
    Stricken and seared with slavery’s mortal scars,
    Reft of her children, lonely, anguished, yet
    Still looking at the stars.”
    —Jessie Fauset (20th century)

    “The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.”
    —Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)

    “I tell you, you’re ruining that boy. You’re ruining him. Why can’t you do as much for me?”
    —S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, a wisecrack made as Huxley College president to Connie, the college widow (Thelma Todd)