THESE ARE ACTUAL QUOTES MADE BY THE IDIOT!!!! Hard to believe anyone's so stupid.......... Dan Quayle Quote Compendium Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to defensive capability. I believe that is the route this country will eventually go. Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. (Freudian slip?) Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is IN the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here. --Hawaii, September 1989 Mars is essentially in the same orbit... 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 terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is. --Vice President Dan Quayle winning friends while speaking to the United Negro College Fund You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I'm concerned, happy campers you will always be. --Dan Quayle, to the American Samoans, whose capital he pronounces "Pogo Pogo" Quayle stumbled in response to a question about his opinion of the Holocaust. He said it was "an obscene period in our nation's history." Then, trying to clarify his remark, Quayle said he meant "this century's history" and added a confusing comment: "We all lived in this century, I didn't live in this century," he said. We expect them (Salvadorian officials) to work toward the elimination of human rights. 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'. If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure. --Dan Quayle to the Phoenix Republican Forum, March 1990 It's rural America. That's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America. I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman. We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'. Target prices? How that works? I know quite a bit about farm policy. I come from Indiana, which is a farm state. Deficiency payments - which are the key - that is what gets money into the farmer's hands. We got loans, uh, rates, we got target, uh, prices, uh, I have worked very closely with my senior colleague, (Indiana Senator) Richard Lugar, making sure that the farmers of Indiana are taken care of. --Vice President Dan Quayle on being asked to define the term "target prices." Quayle's press secretary then cut short the press conference after two min. and 30 seconds. Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part. --Dan Quayle referring to the collapsed section of the 880 freeway after the San Francisco quake of 1989. (This may have been a joke-sources are unclear.) ...getting cruise missiles so that we can have precise precision. I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time. --addressing workers at an Ohio steel plant, 1988 Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different sets of situations and I tell you what, I'm not going to go out and hold a news conference about it. I'm going to put it in a safe and keep it there! Does that answer your question? --Vice President Dan Quayle when asked what he would do if he assumed the Presidency, 1988 Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. The real question for 1988 is whether we're going to go forward to tomorrow or past to the -- to the back! We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world. No, I had no problem communicating with the Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish that I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school. Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of NOT having it. I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child. --Dan Quayle blundering again while criticizing Murphy Brown's decision to NOT have an abortion and to be a single (highly successful) mother. When told about Quayle's comments, a senior Bush campaign official replied only, "Oh dear." Don't forget about the importance of the family. It begins with the family. We're not going to redefine the family. Everybody knows the definition of the family. (Meaningful pause) A child. (Meaningful pause) A mother. (Meaningful pause) A father. There are other arrangements of the family, but that is a family and family values. I've been very blessed with wonderful parents and a wonderful family, and I am proud of my family. Anybody turns to their family. I have a very good family. I am very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it. I suppose three important things certainly come to my mind that we want to say thank you. The first would be our family. Your family, my family -- which is composed of an immediate family of a wife and three children, a larger family with grandparents and aunts and uncles. We all have our family, whichever that may be...The very beginnings of civilization, the very beginnings of this country, goes back to the family. And time and time again, I am often reminded, especially in this Presidential campaign, of the importance of family, and what a family means to this country. And so when you pay thanks, I suppose the first thing that would come to mind would be to thank the Lord for the family. The cause of the riots were the rioters. --Dan Quayle in San Francisco-on the L.A. riots ...never, never surrender to what is right. --in a speech to the Christian Coalition Do you treat them with DDT? --asking doctors at an AIDS clinic about their treatments of choice ( reported on by Paul Harvey ) Maybe you guys will get lucky this year and face the Orioles in the World Series. --encouraging the Milwaukee Brewers after throwing out the opening pitch of the season. (5/3/92 Detroit News) I have made good judgments in the past; I have made good judgments in the future. The loss of life will be irreplaceable. --after the San Francisco earthquake Let me tell you something. As we were walking around in the store, Marilyn and I were just really impressed by all the novelties and the different types of little things that you could get for Christmas. And all the people that would help you, they were dressed up in things that said 'I believe in Santa Claus.' And the only thing that I could think is that I believe in George Bush. --from the L.A. Times, Nov. 6, 1988 It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing 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. I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something that teenage boys might find of interest. --when purchasing an African Indian doll that, when lifted, displays an erection. This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States! --1988 elections People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. During the White House Easter Egg Roll of 1991, Quayle signed autographs using only his finger. He had prepared pre-signed cards which his aides handed out while he made signing gestures. This allowed him to move briskly and efficiently through the crowd, said his spokesman. Dan Quayle, in April 1991, was concerned that his advisors may be getting out of touch with "Real Americans." In order to combat this, he suggested that they read People Magazine. 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. I stand by all the misstatements that I've made. _____________________________