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Dan Quayles Clueless Quotes
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing
that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In
other words a good offense wins.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle comparing the offensive capabilities of
the Warsaw Pact with the defensive system of NATO
Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more
stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who
enter conflict in the first place to have a reduction of
offensive systems and an introduction to defensive
capability. I believe that is the route this country will
eventually go.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle
Republicans understand the importance of
bondage between a mother and child.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle
Mars is essentially in the 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.
-- Vice President
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.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle, Hawaii, September 1989
What a terrible thing to have lost one's
mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle winning friends while speaking to the
United Negro College Fund
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.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle, to the American Samoans, whose capital
Quayle pronounces "Pogo Pogo"
Quayle stumbled in response to a question
about his opinion of the Holocaust. He said it was
"an obscene period in our nation's history."
Then, trying to clarify his remark, Quayle said he meant
"this century's history" and added a confusing
comment. "We all lived in this century, I didn't
live in this century," he said.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle
We expect them :Salvadoran officials: to work
toward the elimination of human rights.
-- Vice President
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.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle
I believe we are on an irreversible trend
toward more freedom and democracy - but that could
change.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle
One word sums up probably the responsibility
of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be
prepared'.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle
If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of
failure.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle, to the Phoenix Republican Forum, March
1990
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.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle
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.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle on being asked to define the term
"target prices." Quayle's press secretary
then cut short the press conference, after two
minutes and 30 seconds.
Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more
stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who
enter conflict in the first place to have a reduction of
offensive systems and an introduction to defensive
capability. I believe that is the route this country will
eventually go.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle
I 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 the Congress.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle
I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle
We should develop anti-satellite weapons
because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red
Storm Rising'.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
The US has a vital interest in that area of
the country.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle Referring to Latin America.
Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and
the United States of the Western industrialized capacity,
60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement
in and of itself.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle
Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who
brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now
being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle. Actually, Dubcek was the leader of the
Prague Spring.
May our nation continue to be the beakon of
hope to the world.
-- The Quayle's 1989
Christmas card. :Not a beacon of literacy, though.:
Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the
bottom part.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle referring to the collapsed section of the
880 freeway after the San Francisco earthquake of
1989. :this may be a joke; the source is unclear. but
it's still funny:
getting :cruise missles: more accurate so
that we can have precise precision.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle referring to his legislative work dealing
with cruise missles
I can identify with steelworkers. I can
identify with workers that have had a difficult time.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle addressing workers at an Ohio steel
plant,1988
:I will never have: another Jimmy Carter
grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain
embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle during the Benson debate
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 about it. I'm going to put it in a safe and
keep it there! Does
that answer your question?
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle when asked what he would do if he assumed
the Presidency,1988
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.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle responding to press reports of his aides
having to, in effect, "potty train" him.
I would guess that there's adequate
low-income housing in this country.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate
things.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle
The real question for 1988 is whether we're
going to go forward to tomorrow or past to the -- to the
back!
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle
We will invest in our people, quality
education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and
yes, a thing we call America.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle, 1988
We'll let the sunshine in and shine on us,
because today we're happy and tomorrow we'll be even
happier.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle, 1988
We're going to have the best-educated
American people in the world.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle
This election is about who's going to be the
next President of the United States!
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle, 1988
Don't forget about the importance of the
family. It begins with the family. We're not going to
redefine the family. Everybody knows the definition of
the family. :Meaningful pause: A child. :Meaningful
pause: A mother. :Meaningful pause: A father. There are
other arrangements of the family, but that is a family
and family values. I've been very blessed with wonderful
parents and a wonderful family, and I am proud of my
family. Anybody turns to their family. I have a very good
family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I
believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the
things we have in our platform, is to talk about it. I
suppose three important things certainly come to my mind
that we want to say thank you. The first would be our
family. Your family, my family -- which is composed of an
immediate family of a wife and three children, a larger
family with grandparents and aunts and uncles. We all
have our family, whichever that may be ... The very
beginnings of civilization, the very beginnings of this
country, goes back to the family. And time and time
again, I'm often reminded, especially in this
Presidential campaign, of the importance of a family, and
what a family means to this country. And so when you pay
thanks I suppose the first thing that would come to mind
would be to thank the Lord for the family.
-- Vice President
Dan Quayle
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