Dan Quayle Quotes & Sayings

Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? ... Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits coursing through our system annually? — Dan Quayle

Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations. — Dan Quayle

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

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

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

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

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering. — Dan Quayle

Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women. — Dan Quayle

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. — Dan Quayle

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy? — Dan Quayle

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. — Dan Quayle

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

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

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

For NASA, space is still a high priority." (Quayle, Dan; 1990). — Dan Quayle

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

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

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. — Dan Quayle

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

The future will be a better tomorrow. — Dan Quayle

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

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

favormeThe mind is a terrible thing. — Dan Quayle

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. — Dan Quayle

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

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

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

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

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

The peace dividend is peace. — Dan Quayle

Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't. — Dan Quayle

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

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

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

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. — Dan Quayle

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

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. — Dan Quayle

I felt like I was in charge. — Dan Quayle

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

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists. — Dan Quayle

Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism. — Dan Quayle

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

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

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made. — Dan Quayle

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of faliure — Dan Quayle

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

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

Mars is essentially in the same orbit ... somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. — Dan Quayle

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

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people. — Dan Quayle

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

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite. — Dan Quayle

Investments - particularly those that involve the change of control of a company - only work when they work well for all parties involved. — Dan Quayle

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman. — Dan Quayle

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

The cause of the riots were the rioters — Dan Quayle

I'd like to get into the National Guard. — Dan Quayle

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

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

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

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

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child. — Dan Quayle

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

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is. — Dan Quayle

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

A mind is a terrible thing — Dan Quayle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Dan Quayle

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

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

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. — Dan Quayle

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. — Dan Quayle

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

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

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

It's a very good historical book about history. — Dan Quayle

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

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

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. — Dan Quayle

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. — Dan Quayle

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

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right. — Dan Quayle

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

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

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

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

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

Public Speaking is very easy. — Dan Quayle

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