From: ccastmg@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael G. Goldsman)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Quayle Quotes + Request for more!
Keywords: Vice-President, heartbeat-away-from-presidency, lightweight
Date: 17 Oct 91 17:53:31 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

This list is getting a little old, so if someone has any *NEW* quotes 
which aren't on this list, please forward them to me so that I can add them.

I do not receive "The Quayle Quarterly"  so
perhaps someone could send me stuff from there.

Thanks!

-Mike Goldsman

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Quayle Quotes                                      Last updated May 14, 1991
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Thanks to:
     James Allenspach   jima@buhub.bradley.edu 
     Ken Tubman         dprkmt@Arco.COM 
     David K. Poulsen   poulsen@csrd.uiuc.edu
     Subodh Bapat       mailrus!uflorida!rm1!bapat@uunet.UU.NET 
     Tim Dodge          dodgeT%moravian.edu@RELAY.CS.NET
     David Ruderman     ruderman@sbcs.sunysb.edu 
     Ron Dippold        rdippold@drzeus.qualcomm.com
     Dave Goldsman      dgoldsma@gtri01.gatech.edu
and me
     Mike Goldsman      ccastmg@prism.gatech.edu

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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
                   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

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.
		-- Vice President Dan Quayle
                

..Buzz Lukens took that fateful step...
		-- Vice President Dan Quayle confusing the sexual
                   assaulter/congressman with Astronaut Buzz Aldren.

Dan Quayle was in South America and was presented with an empty box
that was to contain a gift from a sailing team.  He was told
that the gift was not ready yet, and that it would be presented
to him when they arrived in the United States. 
Qauyle said: "Ok, I won't open it until then."

During the White House Easter Egg Roll of 1991, Quayle signed autographs
using only his finger. He had prepared pre-signed cards which his aides
handed out while he made signing gestures. This allowed him
to move briskly and efficiently through the crowd, said his spokesman.

Dan Quale, in April 1991, was concerned that his advisors
may be getting out of touch with "Real Americans." In order
to combat this, he suggested that they read People magazine.

People that are really very wierd can get into sensative positions
and have a tremendous impact on history.
		-- Vice President Dan Quayle

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
		-- Vice President 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.
		-- Vice President Dan Quayle

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
                -- Vice President Dan Quayle 
                   after the San Francisco earthquake
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Prince William Sound, Alaska, May 1989
[Remarks to oil spill clean-up workers]:

  "It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing,  
   so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip."

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