Cases Quote by John Willis Ellis

Here in Brazil, the president and the vice president are elected together.

— Michel Temer

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

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

— Fareed Zakaria

Elected presidents are for countries.

— William Hague

Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never before has…

— John Podhoretz

I think that there's only one person that defines the role of vice president of the United States. And, you know, we come in…

— Mike Pence

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.

— Ed Rendell

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

— Jimmy Breslin

Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants…

— Alexander Haig

“In later decades, the role of the Vice President would be gradually and substantially enlarged—at the discretion of the President—but at the time of…

— Robert A. Caro

Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of…

— Madeleine M. Kunin