Dan Quayle Quotation Page




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

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

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

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.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to defensive capability. I believe that is the route this country will eventually go.

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.

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?

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.

May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.
-- The Quayle's 1989 Christmas card.

I not going to focus on what I have done in the past what I stand for, what I articulate to the American people. The American people will judge me on what I am saying and what I have done in the last 12 years in the Congress.

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Mars is essentially in the same orbit... 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 breath.

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

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

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

Quayle stumbled in response to a question about his opinion of the Holocaust. He said it was "an obscene period in our nation's history." Then, trying to clarify his remark, Quayle said he meant "this century's history" and added a confusing comment. "We all lived in this century, I didn't live in this century," he said.

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

The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.
- Referring to Latin America.

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.


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