Bad news Quote by Jeff Greenfield

The vice presidential candidate does not usually make much difference at the polls. But that may be changing as voters become more aware that…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

— Mary Cheney

It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents.

— George W. Bush

“Every presidential nominee says his vice president will be given a serious, important role in his new administration. But it almost never materializes. A…

— David Pietrusza

[If the Democratic nominee turns out to be] Walter Mondale, I hope he picks Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. It would be…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor…

— Omar N. Bradley

A lot of factors go into choosing a vice-presidential nominee.

— Marco Rubio

Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will…

— Chuck Klosterman

Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position, and so,…

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

— Bill Vaughan

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

— Joe Biden

For Sarah Palin, the least experienced on the world stage, the stress of maintaining the fiction that she was qualified to be vice president…

— Tina Brown