Dan-boy speaks

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Dan-boy speaks


"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only
regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school 
so I could converse with those people."
            -- J. Danforth Quayle 

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." 
            -- J. Danforth Quayle

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a 
mother and child."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle 

"Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow 
astronauts."
            -- Vice President 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
oxygen, that means we can breathe."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8//89 

"What a waste it is to lose one's mind.  Or not to have a 
mind is being very wasteful.  How true that is."
            -- Vice President 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."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/5/88 > 

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more 
freedom and democracy - but that could change."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/22/89 > 

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice 
president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 2/6/89 > 

"May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the 
world."
            -- The Quayles' 989 Christmas card. 
            [Not a beacon of literacy, though.] 

 "Mary Janky is good people."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle 

 "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things." 
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle,  /30/88 

"We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go 
forward."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle 

"I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good 
judgements in  the Future."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle 

"The future will be better tomorrow."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle 


"We're going to have the best-educated American people in 
the world."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/2/88 

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive 
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 to Sam Donaldson, 8/7/89 

"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."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle 

"Public speaking is very easy."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle to reporters in 0/88 

"I am not part of the problem.  I am a Republican." 
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix." 
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going 
to the polls."
            -- Vice President 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."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle 

"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of 
not having it."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/20/92 
            (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

"Murphy Brown is doing better than I am.  At least she knows 
she still has a job next year."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/8/92 

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not 
occur."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/22/90 

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/5/90 

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach 
our children."
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/8/90 

"The American people would not want to know of any misquotes 
that Dan Quayle may or may not make."
            --  Vice President Dan Quayle 

"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to
enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made." 
            --  Vice President Dan Quayle

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment.  It's 
the impurities  in our air and water that are doing it." 
            -- Vice President Dan Quayle


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