My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man or his imagination conceived.                      John Adams

The Vice President is like a man in a cataleptic state. He cannot speak; he cannot move; he suffers no pain; and yet he is perfectly conscious of everything going on about him.
                                                         Thomas Marshall

It is not a stepping stone to anything except oblivion.
                                                         Theodore Roosevelt

The Vice Presidency is not worth a pitcher of warm spit.
                                                         John Garner

Look at all the Vice Presidents in History. Where are they? They were about as useful as a cow's fifth teat.                                                  Harry Truman

It's like being naked in the middle of a blizzard with no one to even offer you a match to keep you warm--that's the Vice Presidency.                           Lyndon Johnson

You are trapped vulnerable and alone. And it does not matter who happens to be President.
                                                         Hubert Humphrey

A little over a week ago, I took a rather unusual step for a Vice President. I said something.
                                                         Spiro Agnew

I am not in a leadership position... The President has the responsibility and the power... The Vice President has no responsibility and no power.            Nelson Rockefeller

The job is just awkward, an awkward job.
                                                          Dan Quayle