Quayle Quotes
True, documented quotes by former Vice
President Dan Quayle
Bobby Knight told
me this, 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better
offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
—VP Dan Quayle comparing the offensive capabilities of
the Warsaw pact with the defensive system of NATO
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 reduction of
offensive systems and an introduction to defensive capability. I
believe that is the rout this cou ntry will eventually go.
—VP Dan Quayle
Republicans understand
the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
—VP 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 breath.
—VP 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.
—VP Dan Quayle Hawaii, Sept 1989
What a terrible thing
to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true
that is.
—VP 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.
—VP Dan Quayle, to the American Samoans, whose capital
Quayle pronounces "Pogo Pogo"
Quayle stumbled in response
to a question about his opinion of the Holocaust. "The 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 com ment. "We all lived in this century,
I didn't live in this century." he said.
—VP Dan Quayle
We expect them [Salvadoran
officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.
—VP 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.
—VP Dan Quayle
One word sums up probably
the responsibility of any vice president, and that word is 'to be
prepared'.
—VP Dan Quayle
If we do not succeed we
run the risk of failure.
—VP Dan Quayle, to the Phoenix Republican Forum, Mar '90
It's rural America. It's
where I come from. We always refer to ourselves as real America.
Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
—VP 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, pri ces, 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.
—VP 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 Congress.
—VP Dan Quayle
I want to be Robin to
Bush's Batman.
—VP Dan Quayle
We should develop anti-satellite
weapons because we could not have prevailed with out them in 'Red
Storm Rising.'
—VP Dan Quayle
The US has vital interest
in that area of the country.
—VP 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.
—VP Dan Quayle
Who would have predicted.
. .that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in Czechoslovakia in 1968
is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.
—VP Dan Quayle
Actually, Dubcek was the leader of Prague Spring.
May our nation continue
to be the beakon of hope to the world.
—The Quayle's '89 Christmas card.
[Not a beacon of literacy, though]
getting [cruise missiles]
more accurate so that we can have precise precision.
—VP Dan Quayle referring his legislative work dealing with
cruise missiles.
I can identify with the
steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult
time.
—VP 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.
—VP Dan Quayle during the Benson debate.
Certainly, I would know
what to do, and when I ah 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 i t in a safe and keep it there! Does
that answer your question?
—VP Dan Quayle when asked what he would do if he assumed
the Presidency, '88.
Lookit, I've done it their
way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any question?
Ask me. . .There's not going to be any more handler stories because
I'm the handler . . . I'm Doctor Spin.
—VP Dan Quayle responding to press reports his aids having
to, in effect, "potty train" him.
I would guess that there's
adequate low-income housing in this country.
—VP Dan Quayle
Verbosity leads to unclear,
inarticulate things.
—VP Dan Quayle
The real question for
1988 is whether we're going to go forward to tomorrow or past to
the — to the back!
—VP Dan Quayle
We will invest in our
people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood,
and yes, that thing we call America.
—VP Dan Quayle, 1988
We'll let the sunshine
in and shine on us, because we're happy and tomorrow we'll be even
happier.
—VP Dan Quayle, 1988
We're going to have the
best educated American people in the world.
—VP Dan Quayle
This election is about
who's going to be the next President of the United States!
—VP Dan Quayle, 1988
