Dan Quayle Biography

Dan Quayle, Vice President

Occup.	Vice President
From	USA
Born	February 4, 1947
Age	78 years

James Danforth "Dan" Quayle (born in Indianapolis) is a former U.S. Republican politician. He was the 44th Vice President under George H.W. Bush 1989-1993, after having actually been a congressman for Indiana 4 1977-1981 District and also Senator for Indiana from 1981 to 1989. Quayle tried to win the Republican main political elections in 2000 yet took out after a weak performance in Iowa, as well as provided their support to future President George W. Bush.

He exercised as a lawyer prior to being elected to the House of Representatives as a 29-year-old. George H.W. Bush's selection of Quayle as his preferred vice presidential prospect in 1988 was met with some dissatisfaction, yet Bush and also Quayle won the election versus Michael Dukakis and also Lloyd Bentsen from the Democratic event. As Vice President Quayle had official visits from 47 countries, as well as was designated Chairman of the National Space Council. Bush as well as Quayle was once more the Republican Party prospects in 1992, however lost to Bill Clinton as well as Al Gore.

By the time a political leader has Quayle stayed in Paradise Valley, Arizona, as well as heads a division of the investment company Cerberus Capital Management, as well as to attend to numerous directorships.

Our collection contains 65 quotes who is written / told by Dan, under the main topics: Politics - Sports - Science - History.

Related authors: George W. Bush (President), Al Gore (Vice President), Michael Dukakis (Politician), Ben Quayle (Politician), Lloyd Bentsen (Politician)

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65 Famous quotes by Dan Quayle

"You do the policy, I'll do the politics"

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"Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists"

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"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix"

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"I was known as the chief grave robber of my state"

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

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"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'"

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"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure"

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"We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'"

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"You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be"

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"The future will be better tomorrow"

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"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"

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"If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check"

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"I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman"

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"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!"

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"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change"

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"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican"

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"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here"

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"Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it"

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"For NASA, space is still a high priority"

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"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"

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"El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice"

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"Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins"

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"Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement"

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"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls"

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"I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service"

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"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future"

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"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"

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"I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it"

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"I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible"

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"I deserve respect for the things I did not do"

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"I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake"

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"Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton"

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"If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime"

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"I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child"

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"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made"

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"I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings"

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"I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe"

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"I've never professed to be anything but an average student"

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"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"

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"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"

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"My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right"

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"The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive"

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"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite"

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"Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less"

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"This President is going to lead us out of this recovery"

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"This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!"

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"Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look"

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"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child"

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"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us"

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"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children"

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