About education�
"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
"Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potatoe', how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else? There ya go... all right!"
-- Vice President Dan Quayle correcting a student's correct spelling of the word 'potato' during a spelling bee at an elementary school in Trenton.
"I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, 'You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, actually quoting from President Andrew Jackson.
"I should have remembered that was Andrew Jackson who said that, since he got his nickname 'Stonewall' by vetoing bills passed by Congress."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, confusing Andrew Jackson with Confederate General Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson, who actually got his nickname at the first Battle of Bull Run.
"...Buzz Lukens took that fateful step..."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle confusing the sexual assaulter/Congressman with Astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
About geography�
"It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."
"I love California; I practically grew up in Phoenix."
"Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists."
"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."
He also won a lot of votes on his serious campaigning�
"Speaking as a man, it's not a woman's issue. Us men are tired of losing our women."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle talking about breast cancer.
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
About John Birch Society
"Let me say it one more time. It is ill-rel-e-vant."
-- Senator Dan Quayle testily responding to repeated questions about his parents' involvement in the John Birch Society.
"Because. Because I say it isn't."
-- Senator Dan Quayle explaining why questions about his parents' ties to the John Birch Society aren't relevant.
---Well, THAT settles it, all right!
No kidding!
"If we do not succeed, we run the risk of failure."
"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."
Let us change this world!
"We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights in accordance with the pursuit of Justice."
"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."
"My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will never, never surrender to what is right."
"This president is going to lead us out of this recovery. It will happen."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle at a campaign stop.
Not really what he intended to say�as always
"I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future."
"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."
Is it really possible to be THAT stupid?
"Okay, I won't open it until then."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle after having been presented with an empty box that was to contain a gift from a sailing team in South America. He was told that the gift was not ready yet, but that it would be presented to him when they arrived in the United States.
"I happen to be a Republican president -- ah, the Vice President."
"I'm the Vice President. They know it, and they know that I know it."
-carina
