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Dan Quayle
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“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 back! ... That's a Hoosierism. You've got to get used to that!”
Dan Quayle (born 1947) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to California delegates to the Republican National Convention (August 17, 1988)
“Bobby Knight told me this: "There is nothing that a good defense—cannot beat a better offense." In other words a good offense wins.”
Dan Quayle (born 1947) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the City Club of Chicago (September 8, 1988)
“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. [on followup] No, not our nation's, but in World War II. I mean, we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century, but in this century's history.”
Dan Quayle (born 1947) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Press conference (September 15, 1988), paraphrased in Esquire (August 1992), The New Yorker (October 10, 1988), p. 102
“It is not just age; it's accomplishments, it's experience. I have far more experience than many others that sought the office of vice president of this country. I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency. I will be prepared to deal with the people in the Bush administration, if that unfortunate event would ever occur.”
Dan Quayle (born 1947) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vice-presidential candidates' debate (October 5, 1988); Lloyd Bentsen's response included the line "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy".
“In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.”
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Recorded in: Speech in Illinois (October 1988), quoted in Cathleen Decker (October 19, 1988), "Quayle, in Illinois, Says He's `the Future'" Los Angeles Times
“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”
Dan Quayle (born 1947) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Hendrik Hertzburg (October 1988), referring to Grigori Rasputin
“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.”
Dan Quayle (born 1947) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to American Samoans (April 1989)
“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.”
Dan Quayle (born 1947) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Press comment in Hawaii (April 25, 1989)
“When you take the UNCF model that, what a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind is being very wasteful, how true that is.”
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Recorded in: Speech to the United Negro College Fund (May 9, 1989), mangling the Fund's slogan "A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
“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. Would you like a puppy?”
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Recorded in: cited to the Los Angeles Times (May 16, 1989)
“I believe we are on an irreversible trend towards more freedom and democracy, but that could change.”
Dan Quayle (born 1947) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: cited to the Wall Street Journal (May 26, 1989)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Press comment on Mars exploration (August 11, 1989), televised on CNN, and referenced in "A Quayle Vision of Mars" in The Washington Post (September 1, 1989)
“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”
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Recorded in: Cited to the Cleveland Plain Dealer (September 27, 1990)
“This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.”
Dan Quayle (born 1947) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis (June 9, 1992)
“You’re close, but you left a little something off. The 'e' on the end.”
Dan Quayle (born 1947) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Luis Muñoz Rivera Elementary School in Trenton, New Jersey (June 15, 1992), correcting student William Figueroa on his spelling of "potato.
“He went to the finest of private schools, and I am a public school graduate. Given the poor state of public schools it is obvious why everybody makes all those jokes about me.”
Dan Quayle (born 1947) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About Al Gore, (Newsweek, September 1, 1992)
“I have been asked 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. Yes, I can understand how people were shocked and outraged by the verdict in the Rodney King trial. But there is simply no excuse for the mayhem that followed.”
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“Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.”
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“Bearing babies irresponsibly is simply wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesn't help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown — a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid, professional woman — mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice.”
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“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.”
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Recorded in: Interview with Cathleen Decker (5 September 2008) "Before Sarah Palin, the GOP had Dan Quayle", Los Angeles Times
“I believe that I've made good judgments in the past, and I think I've made good judgments in the future.”
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“We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.”
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“We understand the importance of having the bondage between the parent and the child.”
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“I made a misstatement and I stand by all my misstatements.”
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“The future will be better tomorrow.”
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“I was known as the chief graverobber of my state.”
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“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.”
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