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.
— Dan Quayle
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
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 known as the chief grave robber of my state.
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.
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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.
You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.
Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.
This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.
I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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.
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!
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.
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
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.
We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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.
I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.
I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
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.
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.
This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
