“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
“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
“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.”
--- Dan Quayle
“[The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a] stirring victory for the forces of aggression.”
--- Dan Quayle
“We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.”
--- Dan Quayle
“If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.”
--- 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
“The future will be better tomorrow.”
--- Dan Quayle
“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.”
--- Dan Quayle
“We lead in exporting jobs.” -- Committing a Freudian slip while speaking to the Chamber of Commerce of Evansville, Indiana, a city which lost four large companies in the previous four years. He quickly changed the word 'jobs' to 'products.'
--- Dan Quayle
“For NASA, space is still a high priority.”
--- Dan Quayle
“I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.”
--- Dan Quayle
“One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Vice President, and that one word is 'to be prepared.'”
--- Dan Quayle
“I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.”
--- Dan Quayle
“This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.”
--- Dan Quayle
“The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.”
--- 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
“Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.”
--- Dan Quayle
“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”
--- 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
“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”
--- Dan Quayle
“I deserve respect for the things I did not do.”
--- Dan Quayle
“We lead in exporting jobs.” -- Committing a Freudian slip while speaking to the Chamber of Commerce of Evansville, Indiana, a city which lost four large companies in the previous four years. He quickly changed the word 'jobs' to 'products.'
--- 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 -- to the back!”
--- 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
“Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.”
--- Dan Quayle
“[The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a] stirring victory for the forces of aggression.”
--- Dan Quayle
“Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.”
--- Dan Quayle
“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
“I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.”
--- Dan Quayle
“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 there is oxygen, then we can breathe.”
--- Dan Quayle