Dan Quayle's Quotes

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

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

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

It shows 'us vs. them,' and I'm on the 'us' side.

It's a very good historical book about history.

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.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

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.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

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

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

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.

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

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

What you guys want, I'm for.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

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.

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?

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about 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.

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.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.

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.

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.

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!

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

The future will be better tomorrow.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

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.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

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.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

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.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Change brings opportunity.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

I only wish I had more time for fund raising.