Top 160 Dan Quayle Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.”

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

103. “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

104. “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

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

— Dan Quayle

106. “We lead in exporting jobs.”

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

110. “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

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

— Dan Quayle

112. “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

113. “What you guys want, I’m for.”

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

120. “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

121. “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

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

125. “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

126. “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

127. “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

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

— Dan Quayle

129. “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

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

— Dan Quayle

131. “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

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

139. “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

140. “Clinton cannot possibly win in 2000.”

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

142. “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

143. “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

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

— Dan Quayle

145. “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

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

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

— Dan Quayle

149. “In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!”

— Dan Quayle

150. “I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.”

— Dan Quayle