Dan Quayle Quotes

I have been asked who caused the riots and the killing in L. A. My answer has been direct and simple. Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame. Yes, I can understand how people were shocked and outraged by the verdict in the Rodney King trial. But there is simply no excuse for the mayhem that followed.

The future will be better tomorrow.

I believe that I've made good judgments in the past, and I think I've made good judgments in the future.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend towards more freedom and democracy, but that could change.

We're going to have the best educated American people in the world.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Vice President, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

When you take the UNCF model that, what a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind is being very wasteful, how true that is.

You’re close, but you left a little something off. The 'e' on the end.

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

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.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. [on followup] No, not our nation's, but in World War II. I mean, we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century, but in this century's history.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

What we have here is clear-cut evidence that illegitimacy—something I've always said we should talk about in terms of not having it—leads to drug abuse.

It is not just age; it's accomplishments, it's experience. I have far more experience than many others that sought the office of vice president of this country. I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency. I will be prepared to deal with the people in the Bush administration, if that unfortunate event would ever occur.

I made a misstatement and I stand by all my misstatements.