Dan Quayle Quotes

The future will be better tomorrow

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

It's immoral to parent irresponsibly ... And it doesn't help matters any when prime time tv, like "Murphy Brown", a character who is supposed to represent a successful career woman of today, mocks the importance of the father by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice." Marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program there is ... Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, the national newspapers routinely jeer at [such values] I think most of us in this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong.

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

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

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

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

The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought.

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.

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

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

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.

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

Who's responsible for the riots? The rioters!

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

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

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

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

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

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

Clinton cannot possibly win in 2000.

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.

It shows 'us vs. them', and I'm on the 'us' side.

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

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

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

I'm the Vice-President. They know it, and they know that I know it.

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.

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.

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.

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?

The peace dividend is peace.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

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

I'd like to get into the National Guard.

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

What the media wants and what the media demands of Christians is very simply this: your silence.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The mind is a terrible thing!

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

We lead in exporting jobs.

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

If Ross Perot runs, that's good for us. If he doesn't run, it's good for us.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

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.

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.

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

It's a very good historical book about history.

Someday I intend to read all those books I've written.

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

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

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

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

Public Speaking is very easy.

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

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.

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.

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

The world is beset by challenges including the ongoing danger of international terrorism, and the significant political and economic threats posed by factors such as the high levels of corporate and sovereign debt and persistent unemployment.

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.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

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.

America is great, because America is free.

It is not death that I'm apparently now succumbing to, but the rapid diminishment of lifeforce from this body of mine.

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.

Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am 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 it in a safe and keep it there! Does that answer your question?

favormeThe mind is a terrible thing.

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.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism.

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

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

There are lots more people in the House. I don't know exactly - I've never counted, but at least a couple hundred.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

Pakistan always seems to have a lot of political complexities and political challenges. But Pakistan is important for a number of reasons. Primarily, it is a nuclear power. And if, in fact, al Qaeda and Taliban, which are in Pakistan and causing a lot of tragedies and deaths in Pakistan - if they would ever somehow have real influence and control of that government, then we [world] really have a problem.

What you guys want, I'm for.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

What a terrible thing it is to lose one's mind ...

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