Dan Quayle Quotes - Famous Quotes by Dan Quayle
Born: 1947-02-04
Died: 0000-00-00
Dan Quayle Biography
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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For NASA, space is still a high priority.
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I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.
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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
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I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time.
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I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
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I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
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I happen to be a Republican president - ah, the vice president.
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I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
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I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future.
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I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
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I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
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I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
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I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
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I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
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I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
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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.
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I've never professed to be anything but an average student.
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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!
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It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
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It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler... I'm Doctor Spin.
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Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.
- Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
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Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
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Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.
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My fellow astronauts...
- Dan Quayle, beginning a speech at an Apollo 11 anniversary celeb
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My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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Public speaking is very easy.
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
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The future will be better tomorrow.
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The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
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The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
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The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
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This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
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Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
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Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.
- Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
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We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
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We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.
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We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.
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We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
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We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
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Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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What you guys want, I'm for.
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When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
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When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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You have a part-time job and that's better than no job at all.
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[The U.S. victory in Gulf war was] a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.
- Dan Quayle, 4/11/91 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
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