Real, public utterances of 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.”
“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.”
“I deserve respect for the things I did not do.”
“I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.”
“I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.”
“I happen to be a Republican president—ah, the vice president.”
“I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.”
“I’m going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we’ve had in a couple of hundred years.”
“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.”
“Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.”
“It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.”
“It shows ‘us vs. them,’ and I’m on the ‘us’ side.”
“It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.”
“It’s a very good historical book about history.”
“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.”
“My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.”
“Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.”
“The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.”
“The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.”
“The future will be better tomorrow.”
“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.”
“The loss of life will be irreplaceable.”
“The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.”
“They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we’re going to continue to help.”
“This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!”
“This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.”
“Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.”
“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.”
“We don’t want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.”
“We should develop antisatellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in ‘Red Storm Rising’.”
“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.”
“We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.”
“We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.”
“Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.”
“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”
“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.”
“When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.”
“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.”
-- This list was shamelessly stolen off the WKLH Radio Web site and embellished with edits from www.snopes.com
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