>From Chuck Shaw on femecon:
I'm not sure what the original source or sources are for
these. A journalist friend forwarded them to me. -- Chuck
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Quayle quotes:
"Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important.
We have seen pictures wherethere are canals, we believe, and water. If
there is water, that means thereis oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can
breathe." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind
is being very wasteful. How true that is."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
"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."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/15/88
"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and
democracy - but that could change."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president,
and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 12/6/89
"May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world."
-- The Quayles' 1989 Christmas card.
[Not a beacon of literacy, though.]
"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 11/30/88
"We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the
world."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/21/88
"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions
and have a tremendous impact on history."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89
"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We
have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
"Public speaking is very easy."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle to reporters in 10/88
"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of
not having it."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/20/92
(reported in Esquire, 8/92)
"Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still
has a job next year."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/18/92
"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/22/90
"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/5/90
"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our
children."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/18/90
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the
impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
"[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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