Vice Quotes

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.

People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly the media does. I don't think that it's that important.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

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

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.

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.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.