Quotes about Presidential Vacancy

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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

Alistair Burnett

The end of every President's second term is always a bit disappointing, isn't it?

Juan Guaido

I swear to formally assume the national executive powers as acting president.

Roger Sherman

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

Angier Biddle Duke

But Mr. President, every President keeps the seat warm for his successor.

President Jimmy Carter had little use for diplomatic protocol. JKF’s Chief of Protocol tried to persuade him to give more attention to it. When Carter explained that he just didn’t see how it would help him achieve his objectives, the Ambassador observed: The President never sought Biddle’s advice again.

John Quincy Adams

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.

Upon the death of President William Henry Harrison a month after he took office, John Tyler, the Vice President, assumed the Presidency according to the Constitution. This Vice President assuming the Presidency was shocking to many.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

Abraham Lincoln

Gentleman, I can't do it. You may be right, and I may be wrong; but I'll tell you what I can do: I can resign in favor of Mr. Hamlin [the Vice President]. Perhaps Mr. Hamlin could do it.

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Presidential Vacancy Quotes