Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes

If the Vice President were not to be President of the Senate, he would be without employment.

A Vice President’s only significance consists in the fact that he may cease to be Vice President.

While a vice-president of the United States may lack power, he never lacks; his rank is similar to that of a crown prince, though his succession is considerably less certain.

I cannot recall a single case where a Vice President contributed one electoral vote in a Presidential election.

Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, if your standard-bearer for the presidency is not doing well, it's gonna reflect on the down-ballot.

Even a lame-duck president can be affected by a clear midterm message if he wants to see his vice president elected and preserve his historical legacy.

People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly the media does. I don't think that it's that important.

To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency.

If something awful happens to the President, we’ll get another President.

If John McCain wins, this woman will be one 72 year-old's heartbeat away from being president of the United States, and if that doesn't scare the Hell out of you, it should...

Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House, pending the return of the vice president and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.

In upwards of half a century, this is the first instance of a Vice President's being called to act as President of the United States, and brings to the test that provision of the Constitution which places in the Executive chair a man never thought of for that office by anybody.

I hope that soon after the next election, amongst them they will have decided, settled, and the leader will be ready to take over from me.

I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.

Oh, you know what, it's an honor to be mentioned in the company of those that might lead our country forward after President Obama.

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

Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?

While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.

Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.

What I saw was a cabal between the vice president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made. Now it is paying the consequences of making those decisions in secret, but far more telling to me is America is paying the consequences.

They [the founding fathers] conceived of the vice president as a runner-up presidential candidate.

... as long as there is no chance of my being elected Vice President.

The great problem is how to discharge presidents who have outlived their usefulness to the country

This will last, Mr. President, as long as you are President and beyond.

I am possessed of two separate powers; the one in esse and the other in posse. I am Vice President. In this I am nothing, but I may be everything. But I am President also of the Senate.