Quayle Quotes

Google Groups has newsgroup postings archived from way, way back. In looking through some of my own postings from back in 1992, I came across this gem, obviously dated but funny nonetheless. Just a collection of Dan Quayle quotes.

This list is somewhat old but still good.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle

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

and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the Phoenix Republican Forum, March 1990

The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle Referring to Latin America.

May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.
-- The Quayle's 1989 Christmas card. [Not a beacon of literacy, though.]

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.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle

This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988

Side note: I was just scanning down the posts on that thread for a chuckle. Two down from mine was one from Marc Andreessen. If the name's not familiar, at or near the time he posted to this thread, he was working on developing the very first web browser, Mosaic. A few years later, he would found Netscape and help usher in the internet revolution. Amazing who you could bump into on the internet back then, in the days when the it was the domain of academia.