Top 208 Quotes & Sayings by Dan Quayle - Page 3

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

In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.

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

If Ross Perot runs, that's good for us. If he doesn't run, it's good for us.

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?

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

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.

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

Public Speaking is very easy.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

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

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

It is not death that I'm apparently now succumbing to, but the rapid diminishment of lifeforce from this body of mine.

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

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

The peace dividend is peace.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Pakistan always seems to have a lot of political complexities and political challenges. But Pakistan is important for a number of reasons. Primarily, it is a nuclear power. And if, in fact, al Qaeda and Taliban, which are in Pakistan and causing a lot of tragedies and deaths in Pakistan - if they would ever somehow have real influence and control of that government, then we [world] really have a problem.

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.

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

Who's responsible for the riots? The rioters!

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

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I'd like to get into the National Guard.

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.

I felt like I was in charge.

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

My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, `You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.

We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

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.

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

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

It's not just enough to change the president if we want to change America.

The President scores much better than Bill Clinton.

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.

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.

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

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?

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

I also try to discipline myself when I get into a situation... and I'm trying to think of an answer, instead of being verbose, which is a tendency that I have, to be concise. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

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