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> # The vice president has two duties. One is to inquire daily as to the health of the president, and the other is to attend the funerals of third world dictators. And neither of those do I find an enjoyable exercise.

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## More from John McCain

1. > \[B\]y 2008, I think I might be ready to go down to the old soldiers home and await the cavalry charge there.

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2. > Because I know that as successful as I believe we will be, and I believe that the success \[in Iraq\] will be fairly easy, we will still lose some American young…

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3. > Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sh…

[Permalink to quote \#9](https://quotesby.net/John-McCain/9/ "Permalink to quote 9")

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