Dan Quayle Quotes

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made

We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.

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

The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.

The future will be a better tomorrow.

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.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

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

This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

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 want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

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.

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.

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.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

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.

Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else...? There ya go...alright!

This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.

We lead in exporting jobs.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

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.

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

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

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

America is great, because America is free.

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.

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

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

And this is the best chance to begin to establish the New World Order.

Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.

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

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

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

I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

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