Quayle Dan Quotes & Sayings

I nodded sagely. "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." Masur looked at me quizzically. "Dan Quayle said that," I added. Whether he actually did or not, I liked the quote. — Joseph Finder

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. — Dan Quayle

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

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system. — Dan C. 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

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. — Dan Quayle

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

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. — 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 US condones violence in El Salvador. — Dan Quayle

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

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. — 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

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

Somebody should talk to Dan Quayle and tell him natural blondes don't have dark grey stripes on the sides. — Harvey Fierstein

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

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

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back! — Dan Quayle

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. — Dan Quayle

Of course with John McCain out of the race, George W. Bush has to pick a running mate. Which is kind of a scary proposition when you think about it. I mean his dad picked Dan Quayle, an he isn't as smart as his dad. — Jay Leno

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. — Dan Quayle

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

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

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

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

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

Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food, and Dan Quayle confused with a national political leader, masochists are clearly less mixed-up than the rest of us. — P. J. O'Rourke

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

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

Iraq at one time was actually a functioning government. It's a real state. Afghanistan is not Iraq. It's tribal. It's got a different - a number of different sects, never really had a solid government there running the country on any kind of a continuing basis. Well, to rebuild the nation of Afghanistan is going to be more difficult than rebuilding the nation of Iraq. — Dan Quayle

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

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

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. — 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

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

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

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. — Dan C. Quayle

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. — Dan Quayle

I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys might find of interest. — Dan Quayle

There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show. — Tim Robbins

Information technology has brought people much closer together than ever before, providing a democratizing and mostly stabilizing influence. — Dan Quayle

I happen to be a Republican President ... ah ... the Vice President. — 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

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican. — Dan Quayle

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

This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor. — Dan Quayle

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

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

The cause of the riots were the rioters — Dan Quayle

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

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. — Dan Quayle

The mind is a terrible thing! — Dan Quayle

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

I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. — 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 love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix. — Dan Quayle

I don't care who wins because I go to sporting events to scream. It's the one place on the planet you can shout anything you want. You can bellow at will, and nobody will bother you. I yell things like, 'My life sucks! Dan Quayle is a schmuck! If I don't have sex soon, I'm going to explode!' Parents turn to their kids as I leave the stadium and go, 'Hey, there goes a great fan. — Lewis Black

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

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. — 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

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

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America. — Dan Quayle

Maybe you guys will get lucky this year and face the Orioles in the World Series — Dan Quayle

Every time I see Dan Quayle I feel like buying a vowel. — Emo Philips

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. — Dan Quayle

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

As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it's always meant very bad news for the ticket. Think of Spiro Agnew's foot-in-mouth disease; Tom Eagleton's medical history; the real estate holdings of Geraldine Ferraro's husband; the unbearable lightness of Dan Quayle; Sarah Palin's reading list. — Jeff Greenfield

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

Let me tell you something. As we were walking around in the store, Marilyn and I were just really impressed by all the novelties and the different types of little things that you could get for Christmas. And all the people that would help you, they were dressed up in things that said 'I believe in Santa Claus.' And the only thing that I could think is that I believe in George Bush. — Dan Quayle

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

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. — Dan Quayle

Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been lifted out of poverty with the creation of robust middle classes in India and China, which is an enormously positive development for those countries that also creates opportunities for the rest of the world. — Dan Quayle

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

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. — Dan Quayle

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. — Dan Quayle

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. — 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

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

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. — 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

Developing relationships is a very important part of doing business, and I see more similarities than differences when I travel the world. — Dan Quayle

The future will be better tomorrow — 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

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

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward. — Dan Quayle