A vice president (British English - government: vice-president; business: director) is an officer in government or business who is below a president (managing director) in rank. The name comes from the Latin vice meaning 'in place of'. In some countries, the vice president is called the deputy president. A common colloquial term for the office is vee-pee, deriving from a phonetic interpretation of the abbreviation VP.
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Famous quotes containing the words vice president, 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)
“There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1992)