Dan Quayle Quotes

• We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

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• We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in ‘Red Storm Rising’.

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• We shouldn’t have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

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• We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

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• We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

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

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

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• What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

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

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• What you guys want, I’m for.

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• 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.

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• When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

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• When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

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• You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

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  Tags in Like, Happy

• You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

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  Tags in Policy

• Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

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• For NASA, space is still a high priority.

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

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• Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.

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• I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

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  Topics in Politics

Dan Quayle (81)

Birth:	4th February, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

James Danforth "Dan" Quayle was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is an American politician and lawyer. He was the 44th Vice President of the United States, serving during the term of President George H. W. Bush. He was also a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Indiana. He obtained his J.D. from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 1974. He practiced law in Huntington, Indiana.

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