- "I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman." -- Senator Dan Quayle
- "The other day [the President] said, I know you've had some rough
times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith
that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility.
[He paused, then said] Would you like a puppy?" -- Vice President
Dan Quayle (LA Times 5/21/89)
- "That is not a yes or no question." -- Senator Dan Quayle during
a somewhat heated exchange with reporters in 1988. Quayle indicated
he would only accept ``yes or no'' questions for the rest of the session.
Here, he refuses to answer a question of whether he's offered to take
his name off of the ticket, 8/19/88 (reported in the Washington Post,
8/20/88, p. A6)
- "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." -- Vice President Dan Quayle defending
himself (Tampa Tribune-Times 1/7/90)
- "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." --
Vice President Dan Quayle after the swearing in ceremony on Inauguration
Day, 1/20/89. No, he's not discussing his sanitary habits. (reported
in the NY Daily News, 1/21/89)
- "If Ross Perot runs, that's good for us. If he doesn't run, it's
good for us.
[A reporter then asked him what he meant by that]
That's for you to figure out." -- Vice-President Dan Quayle answering
a reporter's question on what the effect might be if Perot re-entered
the race. He was campaigning in Rockford, Ill., 9/29/92. The Vice-President
later clarified the remark, saying that Perot will raise issues about
the economy, and this is one of the President's strengths. (reported
in the NY Times, 9/30/92)
- Dan Quayle had a trip planned to Beijing, but was worried because
of the turmoil at that end. His security advisor however informed
him that it was pretty safe for D.Q. as, "They are only harassing
intellectuals"'.
- "She was attracted to me by my intellectual curiosity." -- Vice
President Dan Quayle talking about Marilyn (reported in High Times,
11/92)
- "I'll have to check with my dad." -- Dan Quayle responding when
an Indiana GOP county chairman asked him to run for Congress in 1976.
(reported by the Washington Post, 10/2/88)
- "[I support efforts] to limit the terms of members of Congress,
especially members of the House and members of the Senate." --
Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/26/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- "I'm the Vice-President. They know it, and they know that I know
it." -- Vice President Dan Quayle talking about his political enemies,
3/13/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- "The President scores much better than Bill Clinton." -- Vice
President Dan Quayle, comparing Bush's record of marital infidelity
to Clinton's during a televised interview with David Frost, 10/92.
- While discussing the terms of the vice-presidential debate, Quayle's
aide suggested that "props" be allowed, mainly because the Vice-President
wanted to read directly from Al Gore's book on the environment, Earth
in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. Gore's people agreed,
saying that the Senator would then use a potato as a prop.
Quayle quickly abandoned the proposal. -- (reported in The NY Times,
10/6/92)
- "How about if we say when it's wet, it's wet?" -- Vice President
Dan Quayle when asked to define `wetlands'. (from `What a Waste it
Is to Lose One's Mind' -- the Unauthorized Autobiography)
- "It was just a job. It wasn't any special interest in consumer affairs.
I needed a paycheck and the Attorney General said that I would be
best to go down there, because he knew I was anti-consumer." --
Vice President Dan Quayle and talking about his job as Chief investigator,
consumer protection division of the Indiana Attorney General's office
from 1970-1971.
- On 8/13/91 lawyer Dan Quayle tells the American Bar Association
that the US has too many lawyers. He is quickly scolded by another
speaker. -- (reported in Esquire 8/92)
- "It's not to keep him from running off our property. It's to protect
my putting green." -- Vice President Dan Quayle telling a guest
at his house why his dog, Breezy, wears a special collar that emits
a painful jolt of electricity should the dog try to run away. (reported
in the NY Daily News, 6/30/92 -- taken from The Quayle Quarterly,
Summer/Fall 92)
- "I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys
might find of interest." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, when purchasing
a South American Indian Doll that, when lifted, displays an erection,
3/11/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- "There. I paid for my ice tea and I even left you a penny." --
Vice President Dan Quayle at Bob's Big Boy in Claymont, DE. The waitress
who served Dan Quayle said he had given the cashier $1.00 for a 99
cent iced tea, said this, and then laughed. On a stop to a Delaware
restaurant, in Feb. 1992, Quayle bought a coffee at Dempsey's Diner
and left no tip whatsoever. On that occasion, he had just come from
a $500 a plate fundraiser at the Hotel Du Pont. This time, after leaving
his 1 cent tip, he went to a $250 a plate fundraiser at the Rodney
Square Club in downtown Wilmington. (Wilmington News-Journal, 10/24/92)
- Dan Quayle, in April 1991, was concerned that his advisors may be
getting out of touch with "Real Americans". In order to combat this,
he suggested that they read "People" magazine.
- "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." -- Vice President Dan Quayle when a woman at a hospital
in Colorado Springs asked Mr. Quayle whether Hawaii's universal health-care
plan might serve as a national model. (reported in the NY Times, 10/7/92
and the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette 10/11/92)
- "Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is
in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island
that is right here." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, Hawaii, 4/25/89
(reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- "You can't just walk into a store and buy a gun. There's all sorts
of registration, there are all sorts of state laws." -- Senator
Dan Quayle after criticizing Michael Dukakis for the Massachusetts
furlough program. Quayle was soon informed that indeed in many states
a person could just walk into a store and buy a gun. (reported in
the NY Times, 8/27/88)
- "If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you
train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime." -- Vice President
Dan Quayle while at a job training center in Atlanta celebrating the
10th anniversary of the Job Training Partnership Act, which Quayle
helped to sponsor while a senator, 10/13/92. (reported in the NY Times,
10/14/92).
- "I'm glad you asked me that. This gives me the perfect opportunity
to talk about the problems with this Congress..." -- Vice President
Dan Quayle responding to reporters' questions about his use of Air
force 2 to go on golf trips at the cost of $26,000/hour.
- "I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand
Quayle-hunting season begins at noon." -- Senator Dan Quayle to
a crowd in Eau Claire, Wisc. (LA Times 10/16/88)
- "I am now cashing in on being vice president for others. They'll
remember me. I'll remember them." -- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "America is great, because America is free." -- Vice President
Dan Quayle
- "I, I can't tell you exactly what we do on that pain and suffering
in the --
[He then looked off-stage to Kevin Moley, the deputy secretary of
the Department of health, for advice]
Kevin, what do we do on the pain and suffering on our malpractice
proposal?
[He listened briefly to Moley's explanation]
So, it doesn't address it specifically. The state -- the states could
in fact -- what we basically do is -- try to do -- is get the states
to come up with medical malpractice legislation. We have, I think
it's five criteria in our suggested recommendations.
But once they meet the five criteria, then they get a favorable distribution
from us if they meet -- basically forcing the states to adopt this
medical malpractice legislation, and that's the way that you do it."
-- Vice-President Dan Quayle in Phoenix, Arizona, answering a question
on Bush's malpractice reform bill. One of the five malpractice measures
would actually require states to place a cap of $250,000 on damages
for pain and suffering to avoid a cutoff of federal financing. (reported
in the NY Times, 10/7/92)
- "One thing we're able to do is raise money." -- Vice President
Dan Quayle on the Republican Party
- "This is not a bipartisan issue." -- Vice President Dan Quayle
noting that Democrats and political independents join Republicans
in endorsing term limits, while speaking before supporters of term-limitation
proposals in 15 states, 8/20/92 (reported in the NY Times, 8/21/92)
- "What you guys want, I'm for." -- Senator Dan Quayle to farmers
on a local pork issue (8/25/88) (from the Book `The Clothes have No
Emperor')
- "Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our
children. It's a unique profession and, by golly, I hope when they
go into the teaching field that they do have that zeal and they do
have that mission and they do believe in teaching our kids and they're
not getting into this just as a job or a way to put food on the table."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/18/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92,
and `What a Waste it Is to Lose One's Mind')
- "You're a very strong woman... Though this would be a traumatic
experience that you would never forget, I think that you would be
very successful in life." -- Senator Dan Quayle telling an 11-year-old
girl why he would want her to have the baby if she were raped by her
father, 10/18/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- "I hope I never have to deal with it. But obviously I would counsel
her and talk to her and support her on whatever decision
she made." -- Vice President Dan Quayle responding to Larry King's
question of how he would react if his 13-year-old daughter chose to
have an abortion. (CNN, July 22, 1992) Marilyn Quayle later remarked
that her daughter would "take the child to term.''
- "[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." -- Vice President Dan Quayle to reporters while flying
back to Washington on September 23. [From the Associated Press 9/24/92]
- "It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago." --
Vice President Dan Quayle, 4/30/91
- "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." -- Senator Dan Quayle, 10/20/88 (reported in Esquire,
8/92)
- During the White House Easter Egg Roll of 1991, Quayle signed autographs
using only his finger. He had prepared pre-signed cards which his
aides handed out while he made signing gestures. This allowed him
to move briskly and efficiently through the crowd, said his spokesman.
- On 10/11/88 Dan Quayle held a pumpkin next to his head. -- (reported
in Esquire 8/92)
- "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." -- Senator Dan Quayle
at a garden center and produce store in Baltimore (from the Los Angeles
Times, Douglas Jehl, 11/6/88)
- "Senator Bentsen talks about recapturing the foreign markets. Well,
I'll tell you one way that we're not going to recapture the foreign
markets, and that is, in fact, we have another Jimmy Carter grain
embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo. Jimmy Carter's grain embargo
set the American farmer back." -- Senator Dan Quayle. Washington
Post transcript (10/6/88)
- "I feel that this [1981] 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." -- Senator Dan Quayle
- "I'm ready." -- Vice President Dan Quayle describing his ability
to take over the presidency after President Bush vomits and collapses
in Tokyo, 1/8/92 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- "You always learn something by reading the classics. Particularly
The Prince. I go through and look at this from this intellectual
point of view. Machiavelli had these three classes of mind. The first
class was the person that was creative enough to be leader and be
able to lead a great nation without much help. The second class of
mind was one that wasn't creative but could take ideas, put people
around him, and be able to lead nations forward. And the third class
of people didn't really know much of anything. And they were the worst
kind of leaders, because not only were they not creative, but they
didn't know what was right or wrong, and they just sort of went by
whatever they felt like.
- I've tried to figure out where I am. I know I'm not the first because
I don't think I have the creativeness that Machiavelli talks about.
If I go back and reread it I might figure it out exactly where I put
myself. I'm somewhere between two and one." -- Senator Dan Quayle
gives his opinion of the book `The Prince', 9/28/88 (reported in Esquire,
8/92)
- "Obviously, if you join the National Guard, you have less of a chance
of going to Vietnam. I mean it goes without saying." -- Senator
Dan Quayle discussing his draft record on NBC's `Meet the Press',
9/20/92. (reported in the Houston Chronicle 9/21/92)
- "We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have
prevailed without them in Red Storm Rising." -- Senator
Dan Quayle, 9/6/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92) Also reported by Newsweek,
9/88
- "My opponent knows less about national defense than I know about
spelling. Even I know it's Cruise missiles, not Patriot missiles that
go through doors and chimneys." -- Vice President Dan Quayle correcting
a Bill Clinton misstatement, 9/92. (Seen on CNN; the CNN anchorwoman
corrected Quayle when the story was over.)
- Quayle was very enthusiastic about signing author Tom Clancy to
the National Space Council as an unpaid consultant (see his quote
re: Red Storm Rising). Clancy, however, was not Quayle's first
choice; that honor went to famed aviator Clutch Cargo. A plan to approach
him and offer him the position was scuttled when it was discovered
that Mr. Cargo is a fictional character. -- (reported in The New
Republic, 7/3/89)
- "The mike works. That's very important to make sure the mike works,
and ours is working well." -- Senator Dan Quayle informing reporters
of a successful sound check before the VP debate, 10/5/88 (reported
in Esquire, 8/92)
- "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."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle responding to press reports that his
aides have had to, in effect, `potty train' him
- "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."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "You smile discreetly, you look like you're enjoying yourself, like
you're ready to get down to serious business. You've got to be careful
what you say." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, on how to act in front
of the press.
- "Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part." --
Vice President Dan Quayle referring to the collapsed section of the
880 freeway after the San Francisco earthquake of 1989.
- "I would like to express my sympathy to all those impacted
by this disaster." -- Vice President Dan Quayle standing in front
of the collapsed section of highway caused by the Loma Prieta quake.
(CNN)
- "The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to
him when I arrive." -- Vice President Dan Quayle speaking to oil
spill clean-up workers at Prince William Sound, May, 1989
- "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." -- Vice President
Dan Quayle discussing federal help in the Chicago floods. (Chicago
Tribune, 4/24/92 -- taken from The Quayle Quarterly, Summer/Fall 1992)
- "My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we
will never, never surrender to what is right." -- Vice President
Dan Quayle speaking to the Christian Coalition about the need for
abstinence to avoid AIDS, 11/15/91 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- "Okay, I won't open it until then." -- Vice President Dan Quayle
after having been presented with an empty box that was to contain
a gift from a sailing team in South America. He was told that the
gift was not ready yet, but that it would be presented to him when
they arrived in the United States.
- "I happen to be a Republican president -- ah, the vice president."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle (Newsweek 4/9/90)
- "Are they taking DDT?" -- Vice President Dan Quayle asking doctors
at a Manhattan AIDS clinic about their treatments of choice, 4/30/92
(reported in Esquire, 8/92, and NY Post early May 92)
- "Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want
to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone
forever." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/4/89 (reported in Esquire,
8/92)
- "When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and
you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get
a few words tangled here and there." -- Senator Dan Quayle defending
himself (LA Herald Examiner 10/3/88)
- "I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make
their whole career in public service." -- Vice President (former
senator, former congressman, etc..) Dan Quayle
- "This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle discussing John Sununu's resignation
and apparent lack of flexibility, 12/6/91
- "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!" -- Senator Dan Quayle, 8/17/88 (reported in Esquire,
8/92)
- "Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists." --
Vice President Dan Quayle, regarding David Duke's candidacy, 10/12/90,
(reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- "I know one committee I don't want -- Judiciary. They are going
to be dealing with all those issues like abortion, bussing, voting
rights, prayers. I'm not interested in those issues and I want to
stay as far away from them as I can." -- Senator Dan Quayle (from
`What a Waste it Is to Lose One's Mind' -- the Unauthorized Autobiography)
- "We lead in exporting jobs." -- Vice President Dan Quayle committing
a Freudian slip while speaking to the Chamber of Commerce of Evansville,
Indiana, a city which lost 4 large companies in the last four years.
He quickly changed the word `jobs' to `products'. (NY Newsday 7/26/92
- taken from The Quayle Quarterly, Summer/Winter, 1992)
- "I had not had that question before." -- Senator Dan Quayle explaining
why, during the Bentsen debate, he couldn't say what he would do if
he suddenly became president, 10/6/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- "A very positive message." -- Vice President Dan Quayle after
listening to a sermon in which a Georgia minister condemned homosexuality
as `satanic'. (Newsweek, 11/92)
- "Add one little bit on the end... Think of *potatoe*, how's it spelled?
You're right phonetically, but what else...? There ya go... all right!"
-- Vice President Dan Quayle correcting a student's correct spelling
of the word *potato* during a spelling bee at an elementary school
in Trenton.
- "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'." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, actually
quoting from President Andrew Jackson.
- "I should have remembered that was Andrew Jackson who said that,
since he got his nickname `Stonewall' by vetoing bills passed by Congress."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, confusing Andrew Jackson with Confederate
General Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson, who actually got his nickname
at the first Battle of Bull Run.
- "Office of the Vice President... The Council on Competativeness."
-- the letterhead on stationery, complete with misspelling, found
in Dan Quayle's old White House office by Clinton adminstration staffers.
(Newsweek, 2/8/93)
- "Just think what people would say if I said something like that."
-- Private Citizen Dan Quayle after being introduced as `Don Quayle'
at the first tee a practice round of the AT&T Golf Tournament
at Pebble Beach, 2/1/93.
- "I love football and potato chips, so this was a natural. Potatoes
have become a big part of my life, but this time I'm enjoying them!"
-- Private Citizen Dan Quayle commenting about his appearance in
a Lay's Potato Chips commercial aired during the Super Bowl (San Francisco
Chronicle 1/30/94).
- "[Americans will soon observe the 20th anniversary of] Neil Armstrong
and Buzz Lukens' walk on the moon." -- Vice President Dan Quayle
confusing the sexual assaulter/Congressman with Astronaut Buzz Aldrin,
7/15/89 Los Angeles Times (7/16/89)
- "...Buzz Lukens took that fateful step..." -- Vice President
Dan Quayle continuing to confuse the sexual assaulter/Congressman
with Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, 7/15/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- "Take a breath, Al... Inhale." -- Vice President Dan Quayle politely
cutting off Senator Al Gore during the VP Debate in Atlanta, 10/13/92.
Gov. Zell Miller of Georgia said that Dan Quayle reminded him of one
of his grandkids when they've had too much sugar.
- Republican activist Dana Reed said he was amused recently when he
received an unsolicited certificate of commendation signed by Vice
President Dan Quayle. The honor was awarded to Reed as "a champion
of the traditional American values of family, faith, hard work and
morality". Reed quipped, "I'm twice-divorced and 'Murphy Brown' is
my favorite TV show'' -- (reported July, 92 by the Orange County
Register)
- "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things." -- Senator
Dan Quayle, 10/30/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92 and the LA Times,
10/30/88)
- "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret
I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse
with those people." -- J. Danforth Quayle
- "If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure." -- Vice
President Dan Quayle, to the Phoenix Republican Forum, 3/23/90 (reported
in Esquire, 8/92) Also reported by Reuters, 5/2/90
- "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother
and child." -- Senator Dan Quayle, US News and World Report (10/10/88)
- "Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle addressing the 20th anniversary celebration
of the moon landing, 7/20/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- "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. If there is water,
that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is
being very wasteful. How true that is." -- Vice President Dan Quayle
winning friends while speaking to the United Negro College Fund, 5/9/89
This gem has been added to Bartlett's `Familiar Quotations'. (reported
in Esquire, 8/92) (reported in the NY Times, 12/9/92)
- "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I
mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century.
I didn't live in this century." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/15/88
(reported in Esquire, 8/92, The New Yorker, 10/10/88, p.102)
- "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and
democracy - but that could change." -- Vice President Dan Quayle,
5/22/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- "One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president,
and that one word is 'to be prepared'." -- Vice President Dan Quayle,
12/6/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- "May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world."
-- The Quayles' 1989 Christmas card. [Not a beacon of literacy,
though.]
- "We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward." --
Vice President Dan Quayle
- "I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements
in the Future." -- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "The future will be better tomorrow." -- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/21/88 (reported in Esquire,
8/92)
- "People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions
and have a tremendous impact on history." -- Vice President Dan
Quayle
- "I stand by all the misstatements that I've made." -- Vice President
Dan Quayle to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- "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." -- Vice
President Dan Quayle
- "Public speaking is very easy." -- Vice President Dan Quayle
to reporters in 10/88
- "I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican." -- Vice President
Dan Quayle
- "I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix." -- Vice
President Dan Quayle
- "A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the
polls." -- Vice President Dan Quayle
- "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." -- Vice President
Dan Quayle giving an intelligent, in-depth analysis of the LA riots.
(during the Commonwealth Club speech 5/19/92)
- "Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not
having it." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/20/92 (reported in
Esquire, 8/92)
- "Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she
still has a job next year." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/18/92
- "We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/22/90
- "For NASA, space is still a high priority." -- Vice President
Dan Quayle, 9/5/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- "The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that
Dan Quayle may or may not make." -- Vice President Dan Quayle,
in a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 1991
- "We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you
on the mistakes we may or may not have made." -- Vice President
Dan Quayle
- "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities
in our air and water that are doing it." -- Vice President Dan
Quayle
- "[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system." --
Vice President Dan Quayle on the concept of a manned mission to Mars.
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