Dan Quayle Quotes

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

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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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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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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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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 understand the importance of having the bondage between the parent and the child.

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

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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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I made a misstatement and I stand by all my misstatements.

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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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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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Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.

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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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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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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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We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

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

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You're close, but you left a little something off. The 'e' on the end.

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

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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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