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A list of Quayle quotes.
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Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better
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prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place
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to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to
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defensive capability. I believe that is the route this country
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will eventually go.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Mars is essentially in the same orbit... somewhat the same distance from the
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Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals,
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we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If
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oxygen, that means we can breathe.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is IN
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the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that
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is right here.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle,
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Hawaii, September 1989
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind
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at all. How true that is.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle winning friends while
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speaking to the United Negro College Fund
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy
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campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you
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will always be.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the American Samoans,
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whose capital Quayle pronounces "Pogo Pogo"
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Quayle stumbled in response to a question about his opinion of the
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Holocaust. He said it was "an obscene period in our nation's history."
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Then, trying to clarify his remark, Quayle said he meant "this century's
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history" and added a confusing comment. "We all lived in this century,
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I didn't live in this century," he said.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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We expect them Salvadoran officials to work toward the elimination
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of human rights.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices
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to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a
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single voice.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and
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democracy - but that could change.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president,
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and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the Phoenix Republican
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Forum, March 1990
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves
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as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Target prices? How that works? I know quite a bit about farm policy.
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I come from Indiana, which is a farm state. Deficiency payments -
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which are the key - that is what gets money into the farmer's hands.
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We got loan, uh, rates, we got target, uh, prices, uh, I have worked
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very closely with my senior colleague, (Indiana Sen.) Richard Lugar,
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making sure that the farmers of Indiana are taken care of.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle on being asked to
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define the term "target prices."
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Quayle's press secretary then cut short the press
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conference, after two minutes and 30 seconds.
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I not going to focus on what I have done in the past
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what I stand for, what I articulate to the American people.
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The American people will judge me on what I am saying and what I
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have done in the last 12 years in the Congress.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed
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without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle Referring to Latin America.
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of
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the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP,
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two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in
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Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia.
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Unbelievable.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Actually, Dubcek was the leader of the Prague Spring.
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May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.
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-- The Quayles' 1989 Christmas card.
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Not a beacon of literacy, though.
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Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle referring to
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the collapsed section of the 880 freeway after
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the San Francisco earthquake of 1989.
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this may be a joke; the source is unclear.
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but it's still funny
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.. getting cruise missiles more accurate so that we can have precise
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precision.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle referring to his legislative
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work dealing with cruise missles
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I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that
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have had a difficult time.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle addressing workers at
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an Ohio steel plant,1988
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I will never have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy,
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Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle during the Bentson debate
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Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and
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I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different sets of
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situations and I tell you what, I'm not going to go out and hold a news
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conference about it. I'm going to put it in a safe and keep it there! Does
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that answer your question?
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle when asked what he
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would do if he assumed the Presidency,1988
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Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm
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my own handler. Any questions? Ask me ... There's not going to be any more
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handler stories because I'm the handler ... I'm Doctor Spin.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle responding to press reports
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his aides having to, in effect, "potty train" him.
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I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in this
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country.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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The real question for 1988 is whether we're going to go forward to
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tomorrow or past to the -- to the back!
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity,
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family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988
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We'll let the sunshine in and shine on us, because today we're
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happy and tomorrow we'll be even happier.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988
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We're going to have the best-educated American people in the
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world.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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This election is about who's going to be the next President of the
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United States!
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988
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Don't forget about the importance of the family. It begins with
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the family. We're not going to redefine the family. Everybody knows the
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definition of the family. [Meaningful pause] A child. [Meaningful
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pause] A mother. [Meaningful pause] A father. There are other
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arrangements of the family, but that is a family and family values.
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I've been very blessed with wonderful parents and a wonderful
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family, and I am proud of my family. Anybody turns to their family. I have
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a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I
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believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in
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our platform, is to talk about it.
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I suppose three important things certainly come to my mind that we
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want to say thank you. The first would be our family. Your family, my
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family -- which is composed of an immediate family of a wife and three
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children, a larger family with grandparents and aunts and uncles. We all
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have our family, whichever that may be ... The very beginnings of
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civilization, the very beginnings of this country, goes back to the family.
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And time and time again, I'm often reminded, especially in this
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Presidential campaign, of the importance of a family, and what a family
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means to this country. And so when you pay thanks I suppose the first thing
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that would come to mind would be to thank the Lord for the family.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Newsflash X/X 1992 Newsflash
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St. Louis, MO --(UPI)-- Vice President Dan Quayle today visited St.
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Lous, MO, which bears a heavy population descended from German
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immigrants. In order to show support for the newly-unified country of
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Germany, fatherland of many in the audience, he repeated John F.
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Kennedy's words of support 30 years earlier, but this time in English,
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"I am a Jelly Doughnut!" Political commentators agreed that something
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was lost in the translation. Dan Quayle explained his remark by saying
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that he had been told that those who lived in central America enjoyed
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jelly doughnuts.
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tlodba$
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