Thomas R. Marshall Quotes

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

I’m still trying to figure out what a Lieutenant Governor is supposed to do.

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

Elisabeth Hasselbeck could run for vice president.

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.

The position of vice president does not exist in France; neither does a role comparable that of the first lady of the United States.

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

Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

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.

If I could only be President and Congress too, for just 10 minutes.

The office of Vice President is a greater dream than I ever expected.

Bernard Baruch is the acting President of the United States.

Most ex-Presidents would be glad to become ex-officio members of the Senate without a vote.

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.

In the fullness of time, every President ends up hating his Vice President.

The President of the United States is not the Sovereign of the United States. There is a very near analogy between the position of the President of the United States and that of the Prime Minister of England, and both are paid at much the same rate — the income of a second-class professional man. The Sovereign of the United States is the people;

The Vice President has two duties: To daily inquire about the health of the President and to attend the funerals of third world dictators, neither of which interest me.

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.

It has of late … become fashionable to attach very little importance to the office of Vice President; to consider it a matter but of small consequence who the man may be; to view his post merely as an idle post of honor, and the incumbent as a cypher in the government … as a fifth wheel to a coach. The Vice President is not only the second officer of Government in point of rank but of importance, and should be a man possessing and worthy of the confidence of the nation.

My name must not be considered for Vice President. Please withdraw it.

I gave that briefing to the President who was joined by the Vice President, the head of the CIA, the head of the FBI, and several members of the National Security Council. After a couple of jelly beans the President dozed off. That in itself was quite unnerving.

The vice presidency is not an office in which a man who is still vigorous and not past middle life has much chance of doing anything. As you know, I am of an active nature.

Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.