Dan Quayle quotes, God bless him.....


>"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 there is oxygen, that means we can   breathe."
>--Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
>
>"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, 9/15/88
>
>"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,
12/6/89
>
>"May our nation continue to be the beacan of hope to the world."  --The
>Quayles' 1989 Christmas Card (Though not a beacon of literacy)
>
>   "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."   --Vice President
>Dan Quayle, 11/30/88
>
>"We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward."  --Vice
>President Dan Quayle
>
>"I have made good judgments in the past.  I have made good   judgments
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, 9/21/88
>
>"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, 8/17/89
>
>"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 10/88
>
>"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, 8/18/92
>
>"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, 9/18/90
>
>"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
>
>"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."   --Vice
>President Dan Quayle >> >>