Dan Quayle Quotes

• I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

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• 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.

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• I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

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• If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

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• If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

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• 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.

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• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

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• In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

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• It shows ‘us vs. them,’ and I’m on the ‘us’ side.

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

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• It’s a very good historical book about history.

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• It’s rural America. It’s where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

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• It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

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• It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

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• Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That’s a statement in and of itself.

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

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• 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!

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

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• One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‘to be prepared’.

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• People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

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Dan Quayle (81)

Birth:	4th February, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

James Danforth "Dan" Quayle was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is an American politician and lawyer. He was the 44th Vice President of the United States, serving during the term of President George H. W. Bush. He was also a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Indiana. He obtained his J.D. from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 1974. He practiced law in Huntington, Indiana.

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