Top 208 Quotes & Sayings by Dan Quayle - Page 2

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

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

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.

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

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

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

What you guys want, I'm for.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

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

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

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

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!

They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes.

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

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

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.

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

Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism.

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.

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.

Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana. We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.

We lead in exporting jobs.

The Democrats talked about putting people first. Well, they put people first unless you happen to be a spotted owl or a giant garter snake or some other endangered species and then that seems to have priority. Obviously, you take the bald eagle and things of that sort, of course you're going to make sure that they are saved and that they can live and you're going to take every precaution that you can. But others - we just need a little flexibility.

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?

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

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made

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

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

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

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

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.

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.

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.

The future will be a better tomorrow.

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.

The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.

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

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

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

I didn't pay a lot of attention as I should have in college.

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

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

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 cause of the riots were the rioters

Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons.

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.

We all lived in this century, I didn't live in this century.

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