Dan Quayle famous quotes

The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?
-- Dan Quayle

#Believe #Fighting #Challenges

The two-party system has served America very well. We always have political movements one way or another but the evolution of a lasting third party probably will not happen.
-- Dan Quayle

#Party #Two #America

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

#Mother #Children #Politics

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

#Witty #Responsibility #Political

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
-- Dan Quayle

#Funny #Running #Risk

For NASA, space is still a high priority.
-- Dan Quayle

#Funny #Witty #Science

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

#Funny #Witty #Political

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

#Funny #Witty #Freedom

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

#Political #Nerd #Tragedy

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

#Way #Vote #Republican

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

#Party #Bills #Republican

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

#Funny #Impact #People

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
-- Dan Quayle

#Funny #Loss #Politics

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

#Jobs #Years #Next Year

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

#Political #Want #Tomorrow

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.
-- Dan Quayle

#Funny #Stupid #Giving

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

#Funny #Stupid #Air

Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.
-- Dan Quayle

#Children #Father #Character

Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.
-- Dan Quayle

#Marijuana #Should #Congress

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

#Stupid #Mind #Republican

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

#Funny #People #Dumb

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.
-- Dan Quayle

#Christian #Believe #Liberty

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

#Funny #Witty #Recovery

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

#Watches #Politics #Enough

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
-- Dan Quayle

#Funny #Past #Judging

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
-- Dan Quayle

#Witty #Political #Middle East

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
-- Dan Quayle

#Funny #Witty #Phoenix

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.
-- Dan Quayle

#Als #Internet #Checks

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.
-- Dan Quayle

#Senior #Taken #Keys

What you guys want, I'm for.
-- Dan Quayle

#Guy #Want

It would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.
-- Dan Quayle

#Would Be #Politics #Economy

People are not homeless if they're sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns.
-- Dan Quayle

#Sleep #People #Hometown

I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in the country.
-- Dan Quayle

#Country #Low Income #Adequate

My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.
-- Dan Quayle

#People #Stupidity #Grandfather

Office of the Vice President... The Council on Competativeness.
-- Dan Quayle

#Office #Stupidity #President

I felt like I was in charge.
-- Dan Quayle

#Stupidity #Fool

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.
-- Dan Quayle

#Country #Believe #Politics

We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.
-- Dan Quayle

#Rights #Politics #Elimination

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.
-- Dan Quayle

#Past #Years #Judging

The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.
-- Dan Quayle

#Country #Politics #Interest

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

#Funny #People #May

Clinton cannot possibly win in 2000.
-- Dan Quayle

#Funny #Winning #Politics

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.
-- Dan Quayle

#Holocaust #Periods #Obscene

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

#Sports #Games #Great American

I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle

#House #Support #Effort

I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.
-- Dan Quayle

#Congress #Jack Kennedy

We do, in former chairman Lee Atwater's words, offer the party as a big tent, and therefore that message has to be clear. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity.
-- Dan Quayle

#Party #Tents #Messages

And this is the best chance to begin to establish the New World Order.
-- Dan Quayle

#Order #Historical #World

Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.
-- Dan Quayle

#Happiness #Campers

I told you all lawyers are worthless. After all it takes won (sic) to know one.
-- Dan Quayle

#Lawyer #Worthless

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.
-- Dan Quayle

#Doctors #Stories #Done

I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well.
-- Dan Quayle

#Careers #Political #Good Business

Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places.
-- Dan Quayle

#Air #Air Travel #Efficiency

I feel that this is my first year, that next year is an election year, that the third year is the mid point, and that the fourth year is the last chance I'll have to make a record since the last two years; I'll be a candidate again. Everything I do in those last two years will be posturing for the election. But right now I don't have to do that.
-- Dan Quayle

#Funny #Years #Two

The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.
-- Dan Quayle

#Funny #War #Victory

This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.
-- Dan Quayle

#Funny #Men #Leaving

We lead in exporting jobs.
-- Dan Quayle

#Funny #Jobs #Politics

Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.
-- Dan Quayle

#Hero #Politics #Tanks

May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.
-- Dan Quayle

#Politics #World #May

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.
-- Dan Quayle

#Politics #Today #Poverty

I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.
-- Dan Quayle

#Optimistic #Politics #Want

You have a part-time job and that's better to no job at all
-- Dan Quayle

#Jobs #Politics

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a cure for AIDS in the marketplace before Magic Johnson gets AIDS?
-- Dan Quayle

#Magic #Politics #Wonderful

I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.
-- Dan Quayle

#Tragedy #Politics

Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else...? There ya go...alright!
-- Dan Quayle

#Thinking #Add #Politics

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

#Peace #War #Mistake

Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three years. And Al Gore has opposed every serious proposal to provide American farmers with meaningful tax relief.
-- Dan Quayle

#Meaningful #Years #Agriculture

The message was that .. fathers can go ahead and have children, but they don't have to raise the children.
-- Dan Quayle

#Children #Father #Messages

We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.
-- Dan Quayle

#War #Mean #Civilization

It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.
-- Dan Quayle

#Mistake #Serious #Would Be

I am uniquely positioned and prepared to be president. I can assure you I am serious. I am committed
-- Dan Quayle

#President #Serious #Committed

Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.
-- Dan Quayle

#Integrity #Hard Work #Responsibility

This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.
-- Dan Quayle

#Media #Honor #Badges

This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977.
-- Dan Quayle

#Years #Two #One Day

I also try to discipline myself when I get into a situation ... and I'm trying to think of an answer, instead of being verbose, which is a tendency that I have, to be concise. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
-- Dan Quayle

#Thinking #Discipline #Trying

Who's responsible for the riots? The rioters!
-- Dan Quayle

#Stupid #Responsible #Riot

I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.
-- Dan Quayle

#Children #Real #Successful

The cause of the riots were the rioters
-- Dan Quayle

#Causes #Politics #Riot

Sam, had a great time this weekend but the golf was lousey.
-- Dan Quayle

#Golf #Weekend #Politics

Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part.
-- Dan Quayle

#Politics #Looks #Wells

Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision.
-- Dan Quayle

#Politics #Cruise #Precision

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

#Politics #Difficult Times #Difficult

We'll let the sunshine in and shine on us, because today we're happy and tomorrow we'll be even happier.
-- Dan Quayle

#Sunshine #Shining #Politics

No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.
-- Dan Quayle

#Latin #School #Wish

...Buzz Lukens took that fateful step...
-- Dan Quayle

#Steps #Politics #Buzz

Okay, I won't open it until then
-- Dan Quayle

#Politics #Okay

Let me tell you something. As we were walking around in the store, Marilyn and I were just really impressed by all the novelties and the different types of little things that you could get for Christmas. And all the people that would help you, they were dressed up in things that said 'I believe in Santa Claus.' And the only thing that I could think is that I believe in George Bush.
-- Dan Quayle

#Believe #Thinking #People

It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.
-- Dan Quayle

#Have A Great Day #Politics #Requirements

I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys might find of interest.
-- Dan Quayle

#Teenage #Home #Boys

Public Speaking is very easy.
-- Dan Quayle

#Politics #Public Speaking #Easy

I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.
-- Dan Quayle

#Hunting #Noon #Politics

I'm glad you asked me that. This gives me the perfect opportunity to talk about the problems with this Congress...
-- Dan Quayle

#Opportunity #Giving #Perfect

Maybe you guys will get lucky this year and face the Orioles in the World Series
-- Dan Quayle

#Years #Guy #Lucky

America is great, because America is free.
-- Dan Quayle

#America #Politics

If you listen to the news, read the news, you'd think we were still in a recession. Well, we're not in a recession. We've had growth; people need to know that. They need to be more upbeat, more positive...
-- Dan Quayle

#Thinking #People #Growth

The message of David Duke, is this, basically: Big government, anti-big government, get out of my pocketbook, cut my taxes, put welfare people back to work. That's a very popular message. The problem is the messenger.
-- Dan Quayle

#Cutting #Government #People

I used to smoke marijuana, but that was when I was in college, before it was a drug.
-- Dan Quayle

#Marijuana #College #Drug

They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes.
-- Dan Quayle

#President #President Reagan #Used