Dan Quayle (b. 1947)

Quotes

• It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

• Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

• Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

• 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.

• What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

• 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.

• I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

• Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

• We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.

• I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.

• The future will be better tomorrow.

• We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

• People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

• I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.

• 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.

• Public speaking is very easy.

• I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

• 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.

• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

• Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.