A biography for Dan Quaylehasn’t been written yet.
“I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.”
“My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.”
“People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.”
“I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.”
“Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.”
“The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.”
“We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.”
“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!”
“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.”
“The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?”
“The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.”
“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.”
“Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.”
“Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.”
“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.”
“Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.”
“I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.”
“We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.”
“If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.”
“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.”