Dan Quayle Quotes (41 quotes) | Quotes of famous people

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

“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.”

Dan Quayle

Commonwealth Club speech

Dan Quayle Quotes about the future

“The future will be better tomorrow.”

Dan Quayle

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_xcaBdBHf4

“I believe that I've made good judgments in the past, and I think I've made good judgments in the future.”

Dan Quayle

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_xcaBdBHf4

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

Dan Quayle

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

“I also try to discipline myself when I get into a situation … and I'm trying to think of an answer, instead of being verbose, which is a tendency that I have, to be concise. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.”

Dan Quayle

Attributed
Source: Quoted in the Los Angeles Times (30 October 1988), attributed to an earlier Associated Press interview

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

Dan Quayle

Speech to the Commonwealth Club of California (19 May 1992)
Commonwealth Club speech

“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.”

Dan Quayle

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmT4AY-BM38

“For NASA, space is still a high priority.”

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Remarks to NASA employees, 9/5/1990, reported in Esquire (August 1992)
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“What we have here is clear-cut evidence that illegitimacy—something I've always said we should talk about in terms of not having it—leads to drug abuse.”

Dan Quayle

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
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“My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will never surrender to what is right.”

Dan Quayle

In a speech to the Christian Coalition
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“It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.”

Dan Quayle

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

“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.”

Dan Quayle

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)

“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.”

Dan Quayle

Press comment in Hawaii (25 April 1989)

“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”

Dan Quayle

Cited to the Cleveland Plain Dealer (27 September 1990)

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

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Luis Muñoz Rivera Elementary School in Trenton, New Jersey (15 June 1992), correcting student William Figueroa on his spelling of "potato."

“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."”

Dan Quayle

Commonwealth Club speech

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

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Attributed to a speech in Phoenix, Arizona to the Phoenix Republican Forum (23 March 1990), quoted in Esquire (August 1992)
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“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. [on 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.”

Dan Quayle

Press conference (15 September 1988), paraphrased in Esquire (August 1992), The New Yorker (10 October 1988), p. 102

“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.”

Dan Quayle

About Al Gore, (Newsweek, 1 September 1992)

“I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.”

Dan Quayle

Although Quayle's home town is in Arizona, it is only a two and a half hour drive from the California border.
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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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cited to the Los Angeles Times (16 May 1989)

“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.”

Dan Quayle

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.”

Dan Quayle

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

“I believe we are on an irreversible trend towards more freedom and democracy, but that could change.”

Dan Quayle

cited to the Wall Street Journal (26 May 1989)

“Bobby Knight told me this: "There is nothing that a good defense—cannot beat a better offense." In other words a good offense wins.”

Dan Quayle

Speech to the City Club of Chicago (8 September 1988)

“The best thing about the Middle East is that is keeps the Far East and Near East from encroaching on each other.”

Dan Quayle

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.”

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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.”

Dan Quayle

Speech to the Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis (9 June 1992)

“One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Vice President, and that one word is 'to be prepared.”

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Attributed in the Quayle Quarterly, a short-lived publication about Quayle's gaffes
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“I made a misstatement and I stand by all my misstatements.”

Dan Quayle

Video, " Who is Dan Quayle? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW2K0-VItAk"