When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

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.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is "to be prepared

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.