James Danforth Quayle III, dit Dan Quayle, né le 4 février 1947 à Indianapolis , est un homme politique américain. Membre du Parti républicain, il est représentant puis sénateur de l'Indiana et le 44e vice-président des États-Unis entre 1989 à 1993 dans l'administration du président George H. W. Bush. Il est également candidat malheureux à l'investiture républicaine lors de l’élection présidentielle de 2000 au profit de George W. Bush. Wikipedia
“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
“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
Commonwealth Club speech
“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
