What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.
"Once there were two brothers, one ran away to sea, the other was
elected Vice President, and neither of them was heard from again" -
commenting on the obscurity of the office of Vice President.
"Indiana is the mother of Vice Presidents, home of more second-class
men than any other state." - his reaction to learning he had just been
nominated as the candidate for Vice president by the Democratic Party.