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Cat got your tongue, Mr. Vice President?
  • Actually Rich...

    Garner's real quote was that the Vice Presidency wasn't worth a bucket of warm piss. It was bowdlerized by the media into "spit":

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nance_Garner

    My favorite vice presidential quote is from Woodrow Wilson's veep Thomas Marshall: "What this country really needs is a good five-cent cigar."