| Quayle Quotes |
| Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more
stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict
in the first place to have a reduction of offensive systems and
an introduction to defensive capability. I believe that is the route
this country will eventually go. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| Republicans understand the importance of
bondage between a mother and child. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| Mars is essentially in the same orbit...
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. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role
in the Pacific. It is IN the Pacific. It is a part of the United
States that is an island that is right here. -- Vice President Dan Quayle, Hawaii, September 1989 |
| What a terrible thing to have lost one's
mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is. -- Vice President Dan Quayle winning friends while speaking to the United Negro College Fund |
| You all look like happy campers to me. Happy
campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am
concerned, happy campers you will always be. -- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the American Samoans |
| Quayle stumbled in response to a question
about his opinion of the Holocaust. He said it was "an obscene
period in our nation's history." Then, trying to clarify his
remark, Quayle said he meant "this century's history"
and added a confusing comment. "We all lived in this century,
I didn't live in this century," he said. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| We expect them Salvadoran officials to work
toward the elimination of human rights. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| 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. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| I believe we are on an irreversible trend
toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| One word sums up probably the responsibility
of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| If we do not succeed, then we run the risk
of failure. -- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the Phoenix Republican Forum, March 1990 |
| 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. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| Target prices? How that works? I know quite
a bit about farm policy. I come from Indiana, which is a farm state.
Deficiency payments - which are the key - that is what gets money
into the farmer's hands. We got loan, uh, rates, we got target,
uh, prices, uh, I have worked very closely with my senior colleague,
(Indiana Sen.) Richard Lugar, making sure that the farmers of Indiana
are taken care of. -- Vice President Dan Quayle on being asked to define the term "target prices." Quayle's press secretary then cut short the press conference, after two minutes and 30 seconds. |
| I not going to focus on what I have done
in the past what I stand for, what I articulate to the American
people. The American people will judge me on what I am saying and
what I have done in the last 12 years in the Congress. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| We should develop anti-satellite weapons
because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| The US has a vital interest in that area
of the country. -- Vice President Dan Quayle Referring to Latin America. |
| Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan
and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60
percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of
itself. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
|
Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks
in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in
Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable. |
| May our nation continue to be the beakon
of hope to the world. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| -- The Quayles' 1989 Christmas card. Not a beacon of literacy, though. |
| Well, it looks as if the top part fell on
the bottom part. -- Vice President Dan Quayle referring to the collapsed section of the 880 freeway after the San Francisco earthquake of 1989. thought widely attributed to Dan Quayle, this one may be a joke but still good for a laugh. |
| .. getting cruise missiles more accurate
so that we can have precise precision. -- Vice President Dan Quayle referring to his legislative work dealing with cruise missles. |
| I can identify with steelworkers. I can
identify with workers that have had a difficult time. -- Vice President Dan Quayle addressing workers at an Ohio steel plant,1988 |
| I will never have another Jimmy Carter grain
embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy
Carter grain embargo. -- Vice President Dan Quayle during the Bentson debate |
| Certainly, I know what to do, and when I
am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency
plans under different sets of situations and I tell you what, I'm
not going to go out and hold a news conference about it. I'm going
to put it in a safe and keep it there! Does that answer your question? -- Vice President Dan Quayle, when questioned about assuming the presidency. |
| 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. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| I would guess that there's adequate low-income
housing in this country. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate
things. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| The real question for 1988 is whether we're
going to go forward to tomorrow or past to the -- to the back! -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| We will invest in our people, quality education,
job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call
America. -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988 |
| We'll let the sunshine in and shine on us,
because today we're happy and tomorrow we'll be even happier. -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988 |
| We're going to have the best-educated American
people in the world. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
| This election is about who's going to be
the next President of the United States! -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988 |
| Don't forget about the importance of the
family. It begins with the family. We're not going to redefine the
family. Everybody knows the definition of the family. [Meaningful
pause] A child. [Meaningful pause] A mother. [Meaningful pause]
A father. There are other arrangements of the family, but that is
a family and family values. I've been very blessed with wonderful
parents and a wonderful family, and I am proud of my family. Anybody
turns to their family. 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. I suppose three important things certainly come to my mind that
we want to say thank you. The first would be our family. Your family,
my family -- which is composed of an immediate family of a wife
and three children, a larger family with grandparents and aunts
and uncles. We all have our family, whichever that may be ... The
very beginnings of civilization, the very beginnings of this country,
goes back to the family. And time and time again, I'm often reminded,
especially in this Presidential campaign, of the importance of a
family, and what a family means to this country. And so when you
pay thanks I suppose the first thing that would come to mind would
be to thank the Lord for the family. -- Vice President Dan Quayle |
|
St. Louis, MO --(UPI)-- Vice President Dan Quayle today visited St. Lous, MO, which bears a heavy population descended from German immigrants. In order to show support for the newly-unified country of Germany, fatherland of many in the audience, he repeated John F. Kennedy's words of support 30 years earlier, but this time in English, "I am a Jelly Doughnut!" Political commentators agreed that something was lost in the translation. Dan Quayle explained hi remark by saying that he had been told that those who lived in central America enjoyed jell doughnuts. |
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