Dan Quayle
Former United States Representative, Senator, the 44th Vice President of the United States (1989–1993), and a minor candidate for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination.
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will never surrender to what is right.
For NASA, space is still a high priority.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.
About Al Gore He went to the finest of private schools, and I am a public school graduate. Given the poor state of public schools it is obvious why everybody makes all those jokes about me. (Newsweek, 1 September 1992)
Bearing babies irresponsibly is simply wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesn't help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown — a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid, professional woman — mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice."
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. Would you like a puppy?
We understand the importance of having the bondage between the parent and the child.
I also try to discipline myself when I get into a situation … and I'm trying to think of an answer, instead of being verbose, which is a tendency that I have, to be concise. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
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.
He's a very different man than the intellectual midget that has been portrayed in much of the media.… I think he's going to make an excellent Vice President, and I believe that he's going to be a popular Vice President just as soon as the people of this country see him as he is.
The best thing about the Middle East is that is keeps the Far East and Near East from encroaching on each other.
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
What we have here is clear-cut evidence that illegitimacy—something I've always said we should talk about in terms of not having it—leads to drug abuse.
I believe that I've made good judgments in the past, and I think I've made good judgments in the future.
We are ready for any unforseen event that may or may not occur.
When you take the UNCF model that, what a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind is being very wasteful, how true that is.
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 back! … That's a Hoosierism. You've got to get used to that!
It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
I don't think I could shoot a deer. Quayle, that's something else again.