Top 208 Quotes & Sayings by Dan Quayle - Page 4

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

Target prices? How that works? I know quite a bit about farm policy. I come from Indiana, which is a farm state. Deficiency payments - which are the key - that is what gets money into the farmer's hands. We got loan, uh, rates, we got target, uh, prices, uh, I have worked very closely with my senior colleague, (Indiana Sen.) Richard Lugar, making sure that the farmers of Indiana are taken care of.

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

America is great, because America is free.

You have a part-time job and that's better to no job at all

The message of David Duke, is this, basically: Big government, anti-big government, get out of my pocketbook, cut my taxes, put welfare people back to work. That's a very popular message. The problem is the messenger.

The US condones violence in El Salvador.

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.

Clinton cannot possibly win in 2000.

Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to defensive capability. I believe that is the route this country will eventually go.

I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring. But I did very well.

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.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

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

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

I work with the president almost on a daily basis. I was with him until 6:30 last night. I'll be with him Thursday morning. We talk every day.

Office of the Vice President... The Council on Competativeness.

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

I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.

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.

Okay, I won't open it until then

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.

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

We need to remember that trade is a great peacemaker that enriches people and increases international understanding and ties between nations.

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

The world is beset by challenges including the ongoing danger of international terrorism, and the significant political and economic threats posed by factors such as the high levels of corporate and sovereign debt and persistent unemployment.

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.

The two-party system has served America very well. We always have political movements one way or another but the evolution of a lasting third party probably will not happen.