Dan Quayle Quotes - Page 8

There are lots more people in the House. I don't know exactly - I've never counted, but at least a couple hundred.

We do, in former chairman Lee Atwater's words, offer the party as a big tent, and therefore that message has to be clear. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity.

Okay, I won't open it until then

The US condones violence in El Salvador.

If you listen to the news, read the news, you'd think we were still in a recession. Well, we're not in a recession. We've had growth; people need to know that. They need to be more upbeat, more positive.

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

America is great, because America is free.

Sam, had a great time this weekend but the golf was lousey.

The message of David Duke, is this, basically: Big government, anti-big government, get out of my pocketbook, cut my taxes, put welfare people back to work. That's a very popular message. The problem is the messenger.

Maybe you guys will get lucky this year and face the Orioles in the World Series

Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.

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.

You have a part-time job and that's better to no job at all

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.

Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to defensive capability. I believe that is the route this country will eventually go.

Office of the Vice President... The Council on Competativeness.

Target prices? How that works? I know quite a bit about farm policy. I come from Indiana, which is a farm state. Deficiency payments - which are the key - that is what gets money into the farmer's hands. We got loan, uh, rates, we got target, uh, prices, uh, I have worked very closely with my senior colleague, (Indiana Sen.) Richard Lugar, making sure that the farmers of Indiana are taken care of.

Information technology has brought people much closer together than ever before, providing a democratizing and mostly stabilizing influence.

We need to remember that trade is a great peacemaker that enriches people and increases international understanding and ties between nations.

Iraq at one time was actually a functioning government. It's a real state. Afghanistan is not Iraq. It's tribal. It's got a different - a number of different sects, never really had a solid government there running the country on any kind of a continuing basis. Well, to rebuild the nation of Afghanistan is going to be more difficult than rebuilding the nation of Iraq.

Developing relationships is a very important part of doing business, and I see more similarities than differences when I travel the world.

The two-party system has served America very well. We always have political movements one way or another but the evolution of a lasting third party probably will not happen.

The world is beset by challenges including the ongoing danger of international terrorism, and the significant political and economic threats posed by factors such as the high levels of corporate and sovereign debt and persistent unemployment.