From: mancuso@pilot.njin.net (Tina Mancuso)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.d
Subject: Dan Quayle quotes
Keywords: stupidity, true?
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:13:14 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I don't know how many of these are true, but I have seen attributions
for at least some of them.  Knowing some of the stupid things Quayle
has said and done, I'm inclined to believe most of them were actually
said by him.  Even if they weren't, they're funny, though.

--Tina

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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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Newsflash  X/X 1992     Newsflash
 
St. Louis, MO  --(UPI)-- Vice President Dan Quayle today visited St.
Lous, MO, which bears a heavy population descended from German
immigrants.  In order to show support for the newly-unified country of
Germany, fatherland of many in the audience, he repeated John F.
Kennedy's words of support 30 years earlier, but this time in English,
"I am a Jelly Doughnut!"  Political commentators agreed that something
was lost in the translation.  Dan Quayle explained his remark by saying
that he had been told that those who lived in central America enjoyed
jelly doughnuts.
--
	  Tina Mancuso, Student Manager, Academic Computer Center
		      Drew University, Madison, NJ
     tmancuso@drunivac.drew.edu		mancuso@pilot.njin.net
"What you think of yourself is more important than what others think of you."