Words matter. These are the best Dan Quayle Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.
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.
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!
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.
Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.
I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.
It shows ‘us vs. them’, and I’m on the ‘us’ side.
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.
I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.
It’s a very good historical book about history.
It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.
We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
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.
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.
What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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.
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
What you guys want, I’m for.
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.
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.
People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
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?
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
The future will be better tomorrow.
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.
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.
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.
This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!
I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
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.
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.
For NASA, space is still a high priority.
I couldn’t help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
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.
We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.
It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.
Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!
I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.
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 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.
