Dan Quayle Quotes

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

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.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

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.

Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a -it is different from the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation.

I am confident that the Republican Party will pick a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

I am not the problem. I am a Republican.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time.

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

I happen to be a Republican president - ah, the vice president.

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 have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

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.

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America,and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

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.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

It shows `us vs. them,' and I'm on the `us' side.

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

It's a very good historical book about history.

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.

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

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.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

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!

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.

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.

Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

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.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

The future will be better tomorrow.

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.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

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?

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America].

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we're going to continue to help.

This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.

We expect the Salvadorean officials to work towards the extremination of human rights.

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.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in `Red Storm Rising'.

We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

What you guys want, I'm for.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You have a part-time job and that's better than no job at all.