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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."
J. Danforth Quayle

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
Vice President Dan Quayle, to the Phoenix Republican Forum, 23-Mar-1990 (reported in Esquire, Aug-1992) Also reported by Reuters, 2-May-1990

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."
Senator Dan Quayle, US News and World Report (10-Oct-1988)

"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."
Vice President Dan Quayle, 11-Aug-1989 (reported in Esquire, Aug-1992)

"What a waster it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
Vice President Dan Quayle winning friends while speaking to the United Negro College Fund, 9-May-1989 This gem has been added to Bartlett's `Familiar Quotations'. (reported in Esquire, Aug-1992) (reported in the NY Times, 9-Dec-1992)

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century."
Senator Dan Quayle, 15-Sep-1988 (reported in Esquire, Aug-1992, The New Yorker, 10-Oct-1988, p.102)

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."
Vice President Dan Quayle, 22-May-1989 (reported in Esquire, Aug-1992)

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is ‘to be prepared’."
Vice President Dan Quayle, 6-Dec-1989 (reported in Esquire, Aug-1992)

"May our nation continue to be the beacon of hope to the world."
The Quayles’ 1989 Christmas card [Not a beacon of literacy, though]

"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."
Vice President Dan Quayle, 30-Nov-1988

"We don’t want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward."
Vice President Dan Quayle

"I have made good judgments in the Past. I have made good judgments in the Future."
Vice President Dan Quayle

"The future will be better tomorrow."
Vice President Dan Quayle

"We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
Vice President Dan Quayle, 21-Sep-1988

"People that are really very wired can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."
Vice President Dan Quayle

"Take a breath, Al... Inhale."
Vice President Dan Quayle politely cutting off Senator Al Gore during the VP Debate in Atlanta, 13-Oct-1992. Gov. Zell Miller of Georgia said that Dan Quayle reminded him of one of his grandkids when they've had too much sugar.

"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe."
Vice President Dan Quayle

"Public speaking is very easy."
Vice President Dan Quayle to reporters in Aug-1988

"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."
Vice President Dan Quayle

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."
Vice President Dan Quayle

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
Vice President Dan Quayle

"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and 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."
Vice President Dan Quayle

"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it."
Vice President Dan Quayle, 10-May-1992 (reported in Esquire, Aug-1992)

"Murphy Brown is going better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year."
Vice President Dan Quayle, 18-Feb-1992

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
Vice President Dan Quayle, 22-Sep-1990

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
Vice President Dan Quayle, 5-Sep-1990

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."
Vice President Dan Quayle, 18-Sep-1990

"The American people would not want know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make."
Vice President Dan Quayle

"We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made."
Vice President Dan Quayle

"It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Vice President Dan Quayle

"[It’s] time for the human race to enter the solar system."
Vice President Dan Quayle

"This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!"
Senator Dan Quayle, 2-Sep-1988 (reported in Esquire, Aug-1992)

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 -- to the back!
Senator Dan Quayle, 17-Aug-1988 (reported in Esquire, Aug-1992)

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.
Vice President Dan Quayle, Hawaii, 25-Apr-1989 (reported in Esquire, Aug-1992)

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
Vice President Dan Quayle addressing the 20th anniversary celebration of the moon landing, 20-Jul-1989 (reported in Esquire, Aug-19/92)

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
Vice President Dan Quayle after the San Francisco earthquake, 19-Oct-1989 (reported in Esquire, Aug-1992)

Bobby Knight told me this: "There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.'' In other words a good offense wins.
Senator Dan Quayle, in a speech to the City Club of Chicago, comparing the offensive capabilities of the Warsaw Pact with the defensive system of NATO, 8-Sep-1988 (reported in Esquire, Aug-1992)