Quayle also lightly brushed off suggestions that he is George Bush's version of Spiro Agnew. "The President talked to me about that the other day," Quayle told a news conference. "He said, 'Dan, I knew Spiro Agnew. Spiro Agnew was a friend of mine. And you're no Spiro Agnew.'" reprinted w/o permission from the philadelphia inquirer 6/16/92. [ed. - First, he was no John Kennedy. Now he's no Spiro Agnew. Maybe he's Mr. Ed] Actually I prefer Dennis Miller's theory: "Some people say that Quayle is Bush's Agnew. I say Quayle is Bush's Gilligan."