Dan Quayle Quotes

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.

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.

What you guys want, I’m for.

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

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.

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

The future will be better tomorrow.

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.

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

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made

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.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

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

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

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

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

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

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

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

We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

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

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

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

I used to smoke marijuana, but that was when I was in college,
before it was a drug.

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 would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.

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

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

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases ‘revenue enhancement’. Not so. No one was fooled

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

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.

It’s a very good historical book about history.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.