James Danforth Quayle is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Profoundly inspirational Dan Quayle quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.
Famous Dan Quayle Quotes
It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. – Dan Quayle
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‘to be prepared’. – Dan Quayle
The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up… And fight for what you believe in? – Dan Quayle
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. – Dan Quayle
The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy? – Dan Quayle
Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana. We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society. – Dan Quayle
We all lived in this century; I didn’t live in this century. – Dan Quayle
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war. – Dan Quayle
Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision. – Dan Quayle
The future will be a better tomorrow. – Dan Quayle
It’s a very good historical book about history. – 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
I want to be Robin to Bush’s Batman. – Dan Quayle
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America. – Dan Quayle
I deserve respect for the things I did not do. – Dan Quayle
Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year. – Dan Quayle
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. – Dan Quayle
Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesn’t help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice. – Dan Quayle
Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases ‘revenue enhancement’. Not so. No one was fooled – Dan Quayle
Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less. – 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 was known as the chief grave robber of my state. – Dan Quayle
This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States! – Dan Quayle
And this is the best chance to begin to establish the New World Order. – Dan Quayle
We lead in exporting jobs. – 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. – Dan Quayle
The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values. – Dan Quayle
Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part. – Dan Quayle
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. – Dan Quayle
I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, `You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word’. – Dan Quayle
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. – Dan Quayle
Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts. – Dan Quayle
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. – Dan Quayle
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. – Dan Quayle
Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be. – Dan Quayle
This President is going to lead us out of this recovery. – Dan Quayle
On the security front, the United States must continue to play a leadership role. There simply is not another country in the world that commands the respect or has the capabilities that we do, and we must not shrink from our responsibilities. – Dan Quayle
Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton. – Dan Quayle
I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made – Dan Quayle
We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in ‘Red Storm Rising’. – Dan Quayle
It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago. – 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. – Dan Quayle
We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world. – Dan Quayle
This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor. – Dan Quayle
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. – 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
I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible. – Dan Quayle
It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system. – Dan Quayle
I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student. – Dan Quayle
Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism. – Dan Quayle
We have seen pictures [of mars] where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe. – Dan Quayle
I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future. – Dan Quayle
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? – Dan Quayle
If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure. – Dan Quayle
No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state – though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school. – Dan Quayle
People are not homeless if they’re sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns. – Dan Quayle
For NASA, space is still a high priority. – Dan Quayle
The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought. – Dan Quayle
It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a temperamental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution. – Dan Quayle
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can, and we will, never, never surrender to what is right. – Dan Quayle
I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican. – Dan Quayle
I used to smoke marijuana, but that was when I was in college, before it was a drug. – Dan Quayle
What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is. – Dan Quayle
We don’t want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward. – Dan Quayle
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us. – Dan Quayle
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don’t deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement. – 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
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other. – Dan Quayle
We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward. – Dan Quayle
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change. – Dan Quayle
If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check. – Dan Quayle
Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons. – Dan Quayle
I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix. – 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
In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future! – Dan Quayle
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. – Dan Quayle
I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child. – Dan Quayle
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. – Dan Quayle
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. – 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
We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country. – Dan Quayle
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. – Dan Quayle
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. – Dan Quayle
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. – Dan Quayle
I couldn’t help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake. – Dan Quayle
It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back. – Dan Quayle
I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service. – Dan Quayle
It shows ‘us vs. them’, and I’m on the ‘us’ side. – 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
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. – Dan Quayle
Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists. – Dan Quayle
Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite. – Dan Quayle
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. – Dan Quayle
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. – Dan Quayle
Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it. – Dan Quayle
You do the policy; I’ll do the politics. – Dan Quayle
People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite. – Dan Quayle
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. – Dan Quayle
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children. – Dan Quayle
I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it. – Dan Quayle
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it. – Dan Quayle
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. – Dan Quayle
The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive. – Dan Quayle
We’ve been in your home, we’ve been on your farm, we’ve been in your workplace. We have listened to you. We have talked with you. – Dan Quayle
mothers and fathers are sick and tired of seeing the values assaulted that they are trying to teach their children. – Dan Quayle
If we don’t pay attention to this Reform Party and people that are going to the Reform Party and try to get them back into the Republican Party, we could pay another very serious price. – Dan Quayle
But apart from that Jacky, how was the parade? – Dan Quayle
He (Gore) has a different interpretation of what integrity is all about, … That will be an issue in this campaign. – 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
I will win the nomination and I will beat Al Gore. – Dan Quayle
We care deeply about our friends and neighbors. – Dan Quayle
When you speak the truth ultimately you will win. Remember Murphy Brown is gone and I’m still here fighting for the American family. – Dan Quayle
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not happen – Dan Quayle
There is a time to compromise, … and there is a time to stand firm. Now, I know that it was a grand photo opportunity at the White House, but I am afraid that the taxpayer once again got the shaft. – Dan Quayle
Today, our campaign is really in a rather unique position because the most recent, national poll — the CNN/Time (magazine) poll — shows us in second place, finally beginning to emerge as the clear alternative to the front-runner. – Dan Quayle
The cause of the riots were the rioters. – Dan Quayle
There are lots more people in the House. I don’t know exactly – I’ve never counted, but at least a couple hundred. – Dan Quayle
The loss of life will be irreplaceable. – Dan Quayle
We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights. – Dan Quayle
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. – Dan Quayle
Sam had a great time this weekend but the golf was lousey. – Dan Quayle
