Top 100 Dan Quayle Quotes
#1. The future will be a better tomorrow.
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#2. I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time.
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#3. Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.
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#4. A good debater can be a good communicator. You have to communicate when you're president of the United States, and communicate effectively with the American people, and with the world.
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#5. You have a part-time job and that's better to no job at all
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#6. Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana ... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.
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#7. In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.
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#8. It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
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#9. Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.
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#10. I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.
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#11. Sam, had a great time this weekend but the golf was lousey.
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#12. America is great, because America is free.
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#13. I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
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#14. Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a-it is different than the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation.
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#15. What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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#16. Abortion is not an issue with the American people. It is a figment of your imagination if you think that this is an issue that is talked about a lot.
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#17. We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
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#18. We'll let the sunshine in and shine on us, because today we're happy and tomorrow we'll be even happier.
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#19. We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.
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#20. I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.
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#21. favormeThe mind is a terrible thing.
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#22. 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.
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#23. What the media wants and what the media demands of Christians is very simply this: your silence.
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#24. If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. If you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
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#25. Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.
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#26. We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
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#27. Office of the Vice President ... The Council on Competativeness.
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#28. On the security front, the United States must continue to play a leadership role. There simply is not another country in the world that commands the respect or has the capabilities that we do, and we must not shrink from our responsibilities.
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#29. The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
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#30. 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.
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#32. Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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#33. Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part.
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#34. Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision.
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#35. I happen to be a Republican President ... ah ... the Vice President.
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#36. While it is important to be aware of and sensitive to cultural differences when conducting business internationally, the principles of transparency, trust, and partnership are universal.
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#37. Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.
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#38. We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
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#39. 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!
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#40. 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.
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#41. 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?
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#42. The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.
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#43. I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.
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#44. 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.
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#47. Who would have predicted ... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.
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#48. The message was that .. fathers can go ahead and have children, but they don't have to raise the children.
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#49. It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.
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#50. 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.
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#51. The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
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#52. 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.
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#53. We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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#54. In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!
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#55. Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign? The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor last week. His rubber ducky drowned in the bathtub.
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#56. 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.
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#57. I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
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#58. I'd like to get into the National Guard.
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#59. Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
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#61. I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.
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#62. 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.
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#63. 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.
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#64. 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.
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#65. Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons.
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#66. The future will be better tomorrow
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#67. 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.
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#68. I am uniquely positioned and prepared to be president. I can assure you I am serious. I am committed
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#69. The cause of the riots were the rioters
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#70. 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.
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#71. 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 ...
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#72. You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
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#73. Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
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#74. I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
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#75. I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
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#76. 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.
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#77. I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in the country.
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#78. It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.
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#79. The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.
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#80. I told you all lawyers are worthless. After all it takes won (sic) to know one.
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#81. I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys might find of interest.
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#82. If Ross Perot runs, that's good for us. If he doesn't run, it's good for us.
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#84. I have a very strong record on the Environment in the United States Senate.
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#85. There are lots more people in the House. I don't know exactly - I've never counted, but at least a couple hundred.
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#86. The US condones violence in El Salvador.
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#87. Maybe you guys will get lucky this year and face the Orioles in the World Series
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#88. I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
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#89. It's a very good historical book about history.
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#90. Developing relationships is a very important part of doing business, and I see more similarities than differences when I travel the world.
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#91. [The US is] naked, absolutely nude, to attack [by the Soviets].
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#92. This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.
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#93. And this is the best chance to begin to establish the New World Order.
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#94. 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.
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#95. 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.
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#96. Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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#97. I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.
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#98. I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.
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#99. 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.
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#100. This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.
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