Ok, I cannot leave good enough alone. A smattering of my favorite Dan Quayle quotes. Pass the ammo and put the fish in the barrel! Enjoy! Overload? Yes but Dan Quayle was to late night comedy in the late 1980s- early 1990s what Tony Danza is today (or then). As Homer would say "Oh, I get jokes. I laugh at Tony Danza
"Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins."
"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."
"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."
"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
"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."
"Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a -it is different from the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation."
"I am confident that the Republican Party will pick a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton."
"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."
"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."
"I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time."
"I deserve respect for the things I did not do."
"I happen to be a Republican president - ah, the vice president."
"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."
"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made. "
"I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child."
"I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman. "
"I was known as the chief grave robber of my state. "
"If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check."
Next to the potato(e) incident, my personal favorite:
"It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago. "
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