Vice presidents are supposed to be eternally loyal, which is why it is so difficult for some to figure out how to succeed their bosses.
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After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never before has a vice president served as an attack dog against his own party's voters.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
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