Top 160 Dan Quayle Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”

— Dan Quayle

2. “We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.”

— Dan Quayle

3. “The future will be a better tomorrow.”

— Dan Quayle

4. “I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.”

— Dan Quayle

5. “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

6. “For NASA, space is still a high priority.”

— Dan Quayle

7. “It would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.”

— Dan Quayle

8. “We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”

— Dan Quayle

9. “Public Speaking is very easy.”

— Dan Quayle

10. “It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.”

— Dan Quayle

11. “We’ll let the sunshine in and shine on us, because today we’re happy and tomorrow we’ll be even happier.”

— Dan Quayle

12. “My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.”

— Dan Quayle

13. “The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.”

— Dan Quayle

14. “If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.”

— Dan Quayle

15. “Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.”

— Dan Quayle

16. “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.”

— Dan Quayle

17. “The US condones violence in El Salvador.”

— Dan Quayle

18. “What a terrible thing it is to lose one’s mind...”

— Dan Quayle

19. “You have a part-time job and that’s better to no job at all.”

— Dan Quayle

20. “Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.”

— Dan Quayle

21. “The rapid rise of the People’s Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.”

— Dan Quayle

22. “Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.”

— Dan Quayle

23. “It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.”

— Dan Quayle

24. “I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.”

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

26. “I deserve respect for the things I did not do.”

— Dan Quayle

27. “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

28. “Developing relationships is a very important part of doing business, and I see more similarities than differences when I travel the world.”

— Dan Quayle

29. “If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.”

— Dan Quayle

30. “The mind is a terrible thing!”

— Dan Quayle

31. “I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.”

— Dan Quayle

32. “We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.”

— Dan Quayle

33. “Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.”

— Dan Quayle

34. “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

35. “Bank failures are caused by depositors who don’t deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.”

— Dan Quayle

36. “Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.”

— Dan Quayle

37. “This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.”

— Dan Quayle

38. “I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.”

— Dan Quayle

39. “The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.”

— Dan Quayle

40. “I’m the Vice-President. They know it, and they know that I know it.”

— Dan Quayle

41. “It’s a very valuable function and requirement that you’re performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.”

— Dan Quayle

42. “We need to remember that trade is a great peacemaker that enriches people and increases international understanding and ties between nations.”

— Dan Quayle

43. “We don’t want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.”

— Dan Quayle

44. “People are not homeless if they’re sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns.”

— Dan Quayle

45. “Information technology has brought people much closer together than ever before, providing a democratizing and mostly stabilizing influence.”

— Dan Quayle

46. “Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.”

— Dan Quayle

47. “It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”

— Dan Quayle

48. “It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.”

— Dan Quayle

49. “While it is important to be aware of and sensitive to cultural differences when conducting business internationally, the principles of transparency, trust, and partnership are universal.”

— Dan Quayle

50. “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.”

— Dan Quayle