Dan Quayle Famous Quotes



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

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

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

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

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."

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

The future will be better tomorrow.

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

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

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

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

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

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

"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."

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

"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."

"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."

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

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."

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.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."

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

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

Public speaking is very easy.

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

"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."


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"You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings-there are no such things."
Robert Frost

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
Werner Karl Heisenberg

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell

"Love your neighbor, but don't tear down your fence."
German proverb

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas B Macaulay

"No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt."
Robert H Bork

"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
Blaise Pascal

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andr Gide

"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer