"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was=20
that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those=20
people."=20
-- J. Danforth Quayle=20
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."=20
-- J. Danforth Quayle=20
"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and=20
child."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle=20
"Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle=20
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance=20
from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are =20
canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen=
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If there is oxygen, that means we can breathe."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89=20
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not tohave a mind is being very=20
wasteful. How true that is."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, speaking at a United Negro College Fund=20
benefit, whose slogan is =93 A mind is a terrible thing to waste.=94=20
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"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this=20
century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this=20
century."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/15/88=20
"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy=20
- but that could change."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/22/89=20
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"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and tha=
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one word is 'to be prepared'."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 12/6/89=20
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"May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world."=20
-- The Quayles' 1989 Christmas card. [Not a beacon of literacy, though.]=20
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"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 11/30/88=20
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"I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the=20
Future."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle=20
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"The future will be better tomorrow."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle=20
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"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/21/88=20
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"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have=20
a tremendous impact on history."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle=20
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"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89=20
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"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm=20
commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle=20
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"Public speaking is very easy."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle to reporters in 10/88=20
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"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle=20
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"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle=20
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"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle=20
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"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the=20
killing in L.A., my answer has been direct andsimple: Who is to blame for th=
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riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The=20
killers are to blame.=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle=20
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"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/20/92 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)=20
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"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/22/90=20
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"For NASA, space is still a high priority."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/5/90=20
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"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/18/90=20
"The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle=20
may or may not make."=20
--Vice President Dan Quayle=20
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"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the=20
mistakes we may or may not have made."=20
--Vice President Dan Quayle=20
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"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in=20
our air and water that are doing it."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle=20
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"[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system."=20
-- Vice President Dan Quayle