Sitting Vice President

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

“Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he managed, for the last eight years, to be in the men’s room whenever an important illegal decision was made.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

“After sitting in my chamber many days, reading the poets, I have been out early on a foggy morning and heard the cry of an owl in a neighboring wood as from a nature behind the common, unexplored by science or by literature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“The President is the people’s lobbyist.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)