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Dan Quayle Quotes (1947-)
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About Dan Quayle
James Danforth "Dan" Quayle (born 4 February 1947) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Quayle was also a U.S. representative from 1977 to 1981 and a U.S. senator from 1981 to 1989 from the state of Indiana. In 1999 Quayle joined Cerberus Capital Management, a multibillion-dollar private-equity firm, where he serves as chairman of the company's global investments division.
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“I was known as the chief graverobber of my state.”
“I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.”
“I made a misstatement and I stand by all my misstatements.”
“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”
“In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.”
“We understand the importance of having the bondage between the parent and the child.”
“I believe we are on an irreversible trend towards 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'.”
“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”
“Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.”
“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 Quotes by Topic
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Dan Quayle on Illegitimacy
“What we have here is clear-cut evidence that illegitimacy—something I've always said we should talk about in terms of not having it—leads to drug abuse.”
Dan Quayle on Drugs
“Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.”
Dan Quayle on Control
“The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.”
Dan Quayle on Lawyers
“Let's ask ourselves: Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system annually? Is it right that people with disputes come up against staggering expense and delay?”
Quotes About Dan Quayle
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Richard Nixon on Dan Quayle
“He's a very different man than the intellectual midget that has been portrayed in much of the media.... I think he's going to make an excellent Vice President, and I believe that he's going to be a popular Vice President just as soon as the people of this country see him as he is.”
George Carlin on Dan Quayle
Senator Lloyd Bentsen on Dan Quayle
Ellen Willis No More Nice Girls on Dan Quayle
“These essays, then, come from New York: the real and imagined city where feminist sexual liberationists, rootless cosmopolitan Jews, not-nice girls/boys/others, loudmouth exiles of all colors are an integral and conspicuous part of the landscape; the pariah community Dan Quayle lambasted as a failed welfare state shortly before making his inspired leap from Murphy Brown's baby to L.A. lawlessness”
Misattributed Quotes
Quotes mistakenly credited to Dan Quayle
“Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.”
“Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.”
“It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”
“The best thing about the Middle East is that is keeps the Far East and Near East from encroaching on each other.”
About Dan Quayle
James Danforth "Dan" Quayle (born 4 February 1947) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Quayle was also a U.S. representative from 1977 to 1981 and a U.S. senator from 1981 to 1989 from the state of Indiana. In 1999 Quayle joined Cerberus Capital Management, a multibillion-dollar private-equity firm, where he serves as chairman of the company's global investments division.