THE BEST OF DAN QUAYLE, WHO ANNOUNCED HIS CANDIDACY FOR
PRESIDENT LAST NIGHT:
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a
mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
-- at a fund-raiser for the United Negro College Fund,
5/9/89 (he was attempting to quote the line "a mind is a
terrible thing to waste").
"I hope there's some respect and dignity for things I did
not do."
-- defending himself against allegations of involvement with
Paula Parkinson, 8/23/88.
"If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure."
-- to the Phoenix Republican Forum, 3/23/90.
"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a
mother and child."
-- "US News and World Report" (10/10/88).
"My grandfather . . . saw where inherited wealth ruined
people. And my grandfather was right."
-- on owning a half-million dollars worth of his family's
newspaper stock holdings (ABC's 'Prime Time Live', August
10, 1992).
"Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potato', how's
it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else...?
There ya' go... all right!"
-- correcting a student's correct spelling of the word
'potato' during a spelling bee at an elementary school in
Trenton.
"I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card.
But as Mark Twain once said, 'You should never trust a man
who has only one way to spell a word'."
-- actually quoting from President Andrew Jackson.
"I should have remembered that was Andrew Jackson who said
that, since he got his nickname 'Stonewall' by vetoing bills
passed by Congress."
-- confusing Andrew Jackson with Confederate General Thomas
J. 'Stonewall' Jackson.
"It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."
-- in Illinois, 4/30/91.
"This president is going to lead us out of this recovery. It
will happen."
-- at a campaign stop at CA State University, Fresno, 1/17/92.
"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 11/30/88.
"I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it."
-- defending his opinions about the TV show 'Murphy Brown'
(Las Vegas, May '92)
"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
-- to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89
--
John H. Hoffmann
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"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt."
-- Mark Twain
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