Dan Quayle Quotes

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

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.

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.

I have a very strong record on the Environment in the United States Senate.

I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, `You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.

The future will be a better tomorrow.

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

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.

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

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

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?

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

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

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

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

The US condones violence in El Salvador.

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.

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

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

Office of the Vice President... The Council on Competativeness.

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

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.

Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism.

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.

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.

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

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

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.

Speaking as a man, it's not a woman's issue. Us men are tired of losing our women.

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.

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

I've heard people say that [I have a short attention span]. I don't feel I do, because when I'm interested in something I'll stay in focus as long as it is necessary... If you get off on something I'm not very interested in, it's very easy for me to block it out. It's easy for me to block things out.

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

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

[The US is] naked, absolutely nude, to attack [by the Soviets].

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

The President scores much better than Bill Clinton.

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.

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.

I'd like to get into the National Guard.

Okay, I won't open it until then

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.