In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

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

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.

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

Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.

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