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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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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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I believe we are on an irreversible trend towards more freedom and democracy, but that could change.
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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!
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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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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.
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We are ready for any unforseen event that may or may not occur.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays 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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You're close, but you left a little something off. The 'e' on the end.
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We understand the importance of having the bondage between the parent and the child.
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Bobby Knight told me this: "There is nothing that a good defense—cannot beat a better offense." In other words a good offense wins.
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I made a misstatement and I stand by all my misstatements.
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The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. [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.
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In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.
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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.
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This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.
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We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.
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February 4, 1947
(age 77)
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James Danforth "Dan" Quayle is an American politician. He was the 44th Vice President of the United States, serving during the term of President George H. W. Bush. He was also a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Indiana.
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