"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child"
"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us"
"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children"
"People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite"
"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history"
"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'"
"My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right"
"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!"
"Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton"
"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"
"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure"
"If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check"
"I've never professed to be anything but an average student"
"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"
"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"