Vice President Quayle Quotes & Sayings

We set our own courses, and we don't get to bitch about them when they turn out to be shitty. — Emily Foster

In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer ... I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting. — Norman Schwarzkopf

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

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

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word ... — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation. — Agnes Repplier

What is he to learn? To imitate? Or to avoid? When your friends the bees worry themselves about their sovereign, and become perfectly distracted touching the slightest monarchical movement, are we men to learn the greatness of Tuft-hunting, or the littleness of the Court Circular? I am not clear, Mr. Boffin, but that the hive may be satirical.'
At all events, they work,' said Mr. Boffin.
Ye-es,' returned Eugene, disparagingly, 'they work; but don't you think they overdo it? — Charles Dickens

The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame. — Neil Young

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

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? — Dan Quayle

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. — Dan Quayle

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking. — Henry Ford

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

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire. — Bob Dole