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Dan Quayle quotes - page 4
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
Dan Quayle
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
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
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
Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back! ... That's a Hoosierism. You've got to get used to that!
Dan Quayle
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
Dan Quayle
I've never professed to be anything but an average student.
Dan Quayle
We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
Dan Quayle
Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle
It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
Dan Quayle
I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.
Dan Quayle
El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
Dan Quayle
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
Dan Quayle
If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
Dan Quayle
I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
Dan Quayle
You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
Dan Quayle
I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
Dan Quayle
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
Dan Quayle
You're close, but you left a little something off. The 'e' on the end.
Dan Quayle
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
We expect them (Salvadoran officials) to work toward the elimination of human rights.
Dan Quayle
I feel that this is my first year, that next year is an election year, that the third year is the mid point, and that the fourth year is the last chance I'll have to make a record since the last two years I'll be a candidate again. Everything I do in those last two years will be posturing for the election. But right now I don't have to do that.
Dan Quayle
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