Famous Dan Quayle Quotes
“We understand the importance of having the bondage between the parent and the child.”
Video, " Who is Dan Quayle? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW2K0-VItAk"
Interview with Cathleen Decker (5 September 2008) "Before Sarah Palin, the GOP had Dan Quayle", Los Angeles Times
Speech to California delegates to the Republican National Convention (17 August 1988)
Dan Quayle Quotes about people
Vice-presidential candidates' debate (5 October 1988); Lloyd Bentsen's famous response included the line "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy".
Interview with Hendrik Hertzburg (October 1988), referring to Grigori Rasputin
U.S. Representative Claudine Schneider (RI) telling an admitted joke about Quayle
"Quayle Quotes" http://www.snopes.com/quotes/quayle.htm, Urban Legends Reference Pages
Misattributed
Commonwealth Club speech
Dan Quayle Quotes about the future
Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_xcaBdBHf4
“In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.”
Speech in Illinois (October 1988), quoted in Cathleen Decker (1988-10-19), "Quayle, in Illinois, Says He's `the Future'" Los Angeles Times
Dan Quayle Quotes
Attributed
Source: Quoted in the Los Angeles Times (30 October 1988), attributed to an earlier Associated Press interview
Speech to the Commonwealth Club of California (19 May 1992)
Commonwealth Club speech
Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmT4AY-BM38
“For NASA, space is still a high priority.”
Remarks to NASA employees, 9/5/1990, reported in Esquire (August 1992)
Attributed
Remarks (20 May 1992), quoted in Esquire (August 1992) and Ann Beatts (23 November 1997) "ABSURDUM; Murphy Brown's Got Dan All Fired Up Again," Los Angeles Times
Attributed
In a speech to the Christian Coalition
Attributed
“It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.”
If Quayle said this, he would only be repeating a phrase that first appeared in print approximately 100 years earlier. See: Staff writer (13 May 1889) "The Great State of Chicago," Chicago Daily Tribune; Staff writer (13 April 1895) " The State of Chicago http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E00E0DB103AE533A25750C1A9629C94649ED7CF," New York Times; Norman Mailer (1968) Miami and the Siege of Chicago
Attributed
Press comment on Mars exploration http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN89/wn090189.html (11 August 1989), televised on CNN, and referenced in "A Quayle Vision of Mars" in The Washington Post (1 September 1989)
“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”
Cited to the Cleveland Plain Dealer (27 September 1990)
“You’re close, but you left a little something off. The 'e' on the end.”
Luis Muñoz Rivera Elementary School in Trenton, New Jersey (15 June 1992), correcting student William Figueroa on his spelling of "potato."
Commonwealth Club speech
“If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.”
Attributed to a speech in Phoenix, Arizona to the Phoenix Republican Forum (23 March 1990), quoted in Esquire (August 1992)
Attributed
Press conference (15 September 1988), paraphrased in Esquire (August 1992), The New Yorker (10 October 1988), p. 102
“I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.”
Although Quayle's home town is in Arizona, it is only a two and a half hour drive from the California border.
Attributed
cited to the Los Angeles Times (16 May 1989)
Speech to the United Negro College Fund (9 May 1989), mangling the Fund's slogan "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
“Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.”
This is a misquotation: video footage shows Quayle saying:
Thank you very much Bob, Mr. President, Mrs. Bush, Dick Truly and fellow astronauts, and ladies and gentlemen.
Video, " Who is Dan Quayle? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW2K0-VItAk"
Misattributed
cited to the Wall Street Journal (26 May 1989)
Speech to the City Club of Chicago (8 September 1988)
All three of the above are from "Future Quayle Quotes We Can Expect to Hear" by Al Jaffee, in MAD magazine, (October 1991), pp. 10–11
Cited in [John Kerry or George W. Bush Misquotes, http://www.snopes.com/quotes/candidate.asp, snopes.com, 2008-12-31, 2004-09-22, Barbara Mikkelson]
Misattributed
“We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.”
Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_xcaBdBHf4
“This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.”
Speech to the Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis (9 June 1992)
Attributed in the Quayle Quarterly, a short-lived publication about Quayle's gaffes
Attributed
“I made a misstatement and I stand by all my misstatements.”
Video, " Who is Dan Quayle? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW2K0-VItAk"
“I was known as the chief graverobber of my state.”
Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_xcaBdBHf4