Quotes from Dan Quayle

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a cure for AIDS in the marketplace before Magic Johnson gets AIDS?

I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.

I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.

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.

It's a very good historical book about history.

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.

Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

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.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

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

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?

When I have been asked during these last weeks 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.

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

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.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

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.

We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.