"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."

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

"Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win."

"It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back."

"We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America."

"It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."

"This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!"

"The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive."

"If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime."

"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame."

"I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible."

"When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there."

"The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other."

"In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!"

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."

"El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice."

"What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is."

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."

"We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say."

"It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America."

"We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'."

"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure."

"Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever."

"It's a very good historical book about history."

"The future will be better tomorrow."

"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."

"I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake."

"I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it."

"Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement."

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe."

"I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe."

"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."

"This President is going to lead us out of this recovery."

"Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look."

"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."

"What you guys want, I'm for."

"The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?"

"I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings."

"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

"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 understand the importance of bondage between parent and child."

"People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite."

"It shows 'us vs. them', and I'm on the 'us' side."

"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."

"My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right."

"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."

"I was known as the chief grave robber of my state."

"If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check."

"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."