Ah Quote by Mark McKinnon

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

— Joe Biden

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

If there were two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican, who each committed to the same kind of fundamental reform, then the election would…

— Lawrence Lessig

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

Politics is more difficult than physics.

— Albert Einstein

I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.

— Bob Dole

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

— Albert Einstein

That could be the issue that the party - that the party faces as we get ready to potentially nominate someone who's utterly unelectable…

— Steve Schmidt

Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according…

— Nathan Myhrvold

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

— Marco Rubio

You can't exactly bake a man to your specifications. Most of all, one shouldn't alienate a candidate. A hybrid of Einstein, Tarzan and Inge…

— Peer Steinbruck