Dan Quayle Politics Quotations

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

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 should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

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

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

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.

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.

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

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

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

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

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

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

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

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

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

The cause of the riots were the rioters

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

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.

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

Public Speaking is very easy.

Clinton cannot possibly win in 2000.

We lead in exporting jobs.

America is great, because America is free.

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

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

I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.

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!

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

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.

Okay, I won't open it until then

...Buzz Lukens took that fateful step...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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