Top 160 Dan Quayle Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “And this is the best chance to begin to establish the New World Order.”

— Dan Quayle

102. “Who’s responsible for the riots? The rioters!”

— Dan Quayle

103. “I have a very good family. I’m 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.”

— Dan Quayle

104. “Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.”

— Dan Quayle

105. “The cause of the riots were the rioters.”

— Dan Quayle

106. “Abortion is not an issue with the American people. It is a figment of your imagination if you think that this is an issue that is talked about a lot.”

— Dan Quayle

107. “May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.”

— Dan Quayle

108. “We lead in exporting jobs.”

— Dan Quayle

109. “Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.”

— Dan Quayle

110. “I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.”

— Dan Quayle

111. “What you guys want, I’m for.”

— Dan Quayle

112. “I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.”

— Dan Quayle

113. “What the media wants and what the media demands of Christians is very simply this: your silence.”

— Dan Quayle

114. “We must reject the idea of isolationism,. But that doesn’t mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.”

— Dan Quayle

115. “The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.”

— Dan Quayle

116. “If you listen to the news, read the news, you’d think we were still in a recession. Well, we’re not in a recession. We’ve had growth; people need to know that. They need to be more upbeat, more positive...”

— Dan Quayle

117. “Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.”

— Dan Quayle

118. “Sam, had a great time this weekend but the golf was lousey.”

— Dan Quayle

119. “If Ross Perot runs, that’s good for us. If he doesn’t run, it’s good for us.”

— Dan Quayle

120. “Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been lifted out of poverty with the creation of robust middle classes in India and China, which is an enormously positive development for those countries that also creates opportunities for the rest of the world.”

— Dan Quayle

121. “I’ve been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.”

— Dan Quayle

122. “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.”

— Dan Quayle

123. “It is not death that I’m apparently now succumbing to, but the rapid diminishment of lifeforce from this body of mine.”

— Dan Quayle

124. “I’m going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we’ve had in a couple of hundred years.”

— Dan Quayle

125. “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.”

— Dan Quayle

126. “Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we’re going forward to tomorrow or whether we’re going to go past to the – to the back!”

— Dan Quayle

127. “The world is beset by challenges including the ongoing danger of international terrorism, and the significant political and economic threats posed by factors such as the high levels of corporate and sovereign debt and persistent unemployment.”

— Dan Quayle

128. “I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn’t get the brass ring, but I did very well.”

— Dan Quayle

129. “The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.”

— Dan Quayle

130. “Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.”

— Dan Quayle

131. “The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.”

— Dan Quayle

132. “I work with the president almost on a daily basis. I was with him until 6:30 last night. I’ll be with him Thursday morning. We talk every day.”

— Dan Quayle

133. “Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.”

— Dan Quayle

134. “We do, in former chairman Lee Atwater’s words, offer the party as a big tent, and therefore that message has to be clear. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity.”

— Dan Quayle

135. “The President scores much better than Bill Clinton.”

— Dan Quayle

136. “I didn’t pay a lot of attention as I should have in college.”

— Dan Quayle

137. “I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.”

— Dan Quayle

138. “I would guess that there’s adequate low-income housing in the country.”

— Dan Quayle

139. “Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a cure for AIDS in the marketplace before Magic Johnson gets AIDS?”

— Dan Quayle

140. “Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign? The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor last week. His rubber ducky drowned in the bathtub.”

— Dan Quayle

141. “I don’t have to experience tragedy to understand it.”

— Dan Quayle

142. “There are lots more people in the House. I don’t know exactly – I’ve never counted, but at least a couple hundred.”

— Dan Quayle

143. “It’s a very good historical book about history.”

— Dan Quayle

144. “Investments – particularly those that involve the change of control of a company – only work when they work well for all parties involved.”

— Dan Quayle

145. “Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places.”

— Dan Quayle

146. “This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977.”

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

148. “I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.”

— Dan Quayle

149. “Clinton cannot possibly win in 2000.”

— Dan Quayle

150. “Maybe you guys will get lucky this year and face the Orioles in the World Series.”

— Dan Quayle