Dan Quayle Quotes

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

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.

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!

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

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.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

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.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

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.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

What you guys want, I’m for.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

I couldn’t help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

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

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.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

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.

The future will be better tomorrow.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in ‚Red Storm Rising‘.

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.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

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

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

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.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

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

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

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 global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

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.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

It shows ‚us vs. them‘, and I’m on the ‚us‘ side.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don’t deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

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.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

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.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.

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.