Quayle Quotes

Date in my archives: 12-Apr-1991

Forwarded with subject: More Quayle quotes

 

 




The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.



-- Vice President Dan Quayle Referring to Latin America.



 



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.



-- Vice President Dan Quayle



 



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



-- Vice President Dan Quayle

   (Actually, Dubcek was the leader of the Prague Spring.)



 



May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.



-- The Quayle's 1989 Christmas card.

   [Not a beacon of literacy, though.]



 



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



-- Vice President Dan Quayle referring to the collapsed
   section of the 880 freeway after the San Francisco earthquake of
   1989.

   [this may be a joke; the source is unclear. but it's still
   funny]



 



getting [cruise missles] more accurate so that we can have
precise precision.



-- Vice President Dan Quayle referring to his legislative
   work dealing with cruise missles



 



I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that
have had a difficult time.



-- Vice President Dan Quayle addressing workers at an
   Ohio steel plant,1988



 



[I will never have] another Jimmy Carter grain embargo,
Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain
embargo.



-- Vice President Dan Quayle during the Benson debate



 



Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and
I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different sets of
situations and I tell you what, I'm not going to go out and hold a
news conference about it. I'm going to put it in a safe and keep it
there! Does that answer your question?



-- Vice President Dan Quayle when asked what he would do
   if he assumed the Presidency,1988



 



Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm
my own handler. Any questions? Ask me ... There's not going to be any
more handler stories because I'm the handler ... I'm Doctor Spin.



-- Vice President Dan Quayle responding to press reports
   of his aides having to, in effect, "potty train" him.



 



I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in this
country.



-- Vice President Dan Quayle



 



Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.



-- Vice President Dan Quayle



 



The real question for 1988 is whether we're going to go forward to
tomorrow or past to the -- to the back!



-- Vice President Dan Quayle



 



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



-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988



 



We'll let the sunshine in and shine on us, because today we're
happy and tomorrow we'll be even happier.



-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988



 



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



-- Vice President Dan Quayle



 



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



-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988



 



Don't forget about the importance of the family. It begins with
the family. We're not going to redefine the family. Everybody knows
the definition of the family. [Meaningful pause] A child.
[Meaningful pause] A mother. [Meaningful pause] A
father. There are other arrangements of the family, but that is a
family and family values.



I've been very blessed with wonderful parents and a wonderful
family, and I am proud of my family. Anybody turns to their family. 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.



I suppose three important things certainly come to my mind that we
want to say thank you. The first would be our family. Your family, my
family -- which is composed of an immediate family of a wife and
three children, a larger family with grandparents and aunts and
uncles. We all have our family, whichever that may be ... The very
beginnings of civilization, the very beginnings of this country, goes
back to the family. And time and time again, I'm often reminded,
especially in this Presidential campaign, of the importance of a
family, and what a family means to this country. And so when you pay
thanks I suppose the first thing that would come to mind would be to
thank the Lord for the family.



-- Vice President Dan Quayle