dan quayle quotes

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

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

"If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure."
--- Dan Quayle

"[The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a] stirring victory for the forces of aggression."
--- Dan Quayle

"Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out, and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever."
--- Dan Quayle

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
--- Dan Quayle

"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."
--- Dan Quayle

"We lead in exporting jobs." -- Committing a Freudian slip while speaking to the Chamber of Commerce of Evansville, Indiana, a city which lost four large companies in the previous four years. He quickly changed the word 'jobs' to 'products.'
--- 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."
--- Dan Quayle

"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."
--- Dan Quayle

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

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
--- Dan Quayle

"If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime."
--- Dan Quayle

"Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement."
--- Dan Quayle

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have tremendous impact on history."
--- Dan Quayle

"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it."
--- 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."
--- Dan Quayle

"Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the -- to the back!"
--- Dan Quayle

"Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins."
--- Dan Quayle

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
--- Dan Quayle