Top 160 Dan Quayle Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.”

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

103. “Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.”

— Dan Quayle

104. “I’m glad you asked me that. This gives me the perfect opportunity to talk about the problems with this Congress...”

— Dan Quayle

105. “I not going to focus on what I have done in the past what I stand for, what I articulate to the American people. The American people will judge me on what I am saying and what I have done in the last 12 years in the Congress.”

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

107. “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

108. “On the security front, the United States must continue to play a leadership role. There simply is not another country in the world that commands the respect or has the capabilities that we do, and we must not shrink from our responsibilities.”

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

110. “We lead in exporting jobs.”

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

113. “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

114. “What you guys want, I’m for.”

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

118. “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

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

121. “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

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

124. “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

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

— Dan Quayle

126. “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

127. “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

128. “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

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

— Dan Quayle

130. “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

131. “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

132. “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

133. “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

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

139. “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.”

— Dan Quayle

140. “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

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

— Dan Quayle

142. “Clinton cannot possibly win in 2000.”

— Dan Quayle

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

— 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. “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

146. “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

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

150. “Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn’t.”

— Dan Quayle