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VP Dan Quayle
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared.'

VP Dan Quayle
When I have been asked during these last weeks 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.

VP Dan Quayle
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in the century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

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

VP Dan Quayle speaking to the United Negro College Fund
What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

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

VP Dan Quayle
Mars is essentially int he 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 breathe.

VP Dan Quayle talking to doctors at a Manhattan AIDS clinic
Are they taking DDT?

VP Dan Quayle
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.

VP Dan Quayle to the American Samoans whose capital he pronounces "Pogo Pogo"
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.

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

VP Dan Quayle
El Salvador is a democracy so it's not suprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans...I have heard a single voice.

VP Dan Quayle
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret that I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

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

VP Dan Quayle
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.

VP Dan Quayle
[I will never have] another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.

VP Dan Quayle asked to define "target prices." Quayle's press secretary then cut short the press conference, after two minutes and 30 seconds.
Target prices? How that works? I know quite a bit about farm policy. I come from Indiana, which is a farm state. Deficiency payments - which are the key - that is what gets money into the farmer's hands. We got loan, uh, rates, we got target, uh, prices uh, I have worked very closely with my senior colleague, (Indiana Sen.) Richard Lugar, making sure that the farmers of Indiana are taken care of.

VP Dan Quayle
I'm 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 Congress.

VP Dan Quayle
I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

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

VP Dan Quayle referring to Latin America
The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.

VP Dan Quayle
Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United states of the Western industrialized capacity, 60% of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.

VP Dan Quayle (actually, Dubcek was the leader of the Prague Spring)
Who would have predicted...that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.

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

VP Dan Quayle refering to the collapsed section of the 880 freeway after the San Francisco earthquake of 1989
Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part.

VP Dan Quaylereferring to his legislative work with cruise missiles
Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have more precise precision.

VP Dan Quayle addressing steel workers at an Ohio steel plant in 1988
I can identify with steel workers. I can identify with workers who have had a difficult time.

VP Dan Quayle when asked what he would do is he assued the Presidency (1988)
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 abou tit. I'm going to put it in a safe and keep it there! Does that answer your question?

VP Dan Quayle responding to reports that this aides that to "handle" him
Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me...There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler...I'm Doctor Spin.

VP Dan Quayle comparing hte offensive capabilities of the Warsaw Pact with the defensive system of NATO
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is noting that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

VP Dan Quayle
Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a callenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go to the past to the - to the back!

VP Dan Quayle
I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.

VP Dan Quayle
We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.

VP Dan Quayle
The future will be better tomorrow.

VP Dan Quayle
I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

VP Dan Quayle
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

VP Dan Quayle
We're going to be the best-educated American people in the world.

VP Dan Quayle
People that are really very wierd can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

VP Dan Quayle
I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.

VP Dan Quayle after the San Francisco earthquake
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

VP Dan Quayle
Let me tell you something. As we were walking around in the store, Marilyn and I were just really impressed by all the novelties and the different trypes of little things that you could get for Christmas. And all the people that would help you, they were dressed up in things that said 'I believe in Santa Claus.' And the only thing that I could think is that I believe in George Bush.

VP Dan Quayle
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

VP Dan Quayle
We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are part of Europe.

VP 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.

VP Dan Quayle
Public speaking is very easy.

VP Dan Quayle
I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

VP Dan Quayle
I happen to be a Republican president - ah, the vice president.

VP Dan Quayle
I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

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

VP Dan Quayle
Sometimes cameras and television aare good to people and sometiemes they aren't. I don't know if it's the way you say it, or how you look.

VP Dan Quayle
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

VP Dan Quayle to the Chron's Jerry Roberts
I think especially in her position, a highly, successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.

VP Dan Quayle defending his positions on the TV show "Murphy Brown
I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

VP Dan Quayle
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

VP Dan Quayle speaking about breast cancer
Speaking as a man, it's not a woman's issue. Us men are tired of losing our women.

VP Dan Quayle
I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

VP Dan Quayle
This president is going to lead us out of this recovery.

VP Dan Quayle
We have to do more than just elect a new president if we truly want to change this country.

VP Dan Quayle
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

VP Dan Quayle
We are ready for any unforseen event that may or may not occur.

VP Dan Quayle
For NASA, space is still a high priority.

VP Dan Quayle
[The U.S. victory in the Gulf war was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.

VP Dan Quayle
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Robert Quillen
If you count all your assets you always show a profit.