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Erlkönig: quayle-quotes.shtmlFrom jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu Sun Nov 1 10:06:56 1992 Path: ai-lab!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hri.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!wupost!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.claremont.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!gumby!jittlov From: jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov Subject: boo Summary: Scarey stuff Keywords: I mean it, this is kinda scarey Message-ID: <1d0j2kINN5cp@gap.caltech.edu> Date: 1 Nov 92 12:37:40 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 268 NNTP-Posting-Host: gumby.cs.caltech.edu WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING The following posting is not for the faint-hearted, or the ill-humored. It is, however and in my opinion, entirely appropriate for this time of the year... Since this is the midpoint between the Equinox and the Solstice, when "the veil between the worlds is thinnest"...when Reality and the Twilight Zone meet, and the Law of the land is "Trick or Treat". (whoa, a rhyme) (I did warn you) ============================================================================ QUAYLE'S GREATEST QUOTES Last updated October 16, 1992 ============================================================================ "Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts." -- Vice President Dan Quayle addressing the 20th anniversary celebration of the moon landing, 7/20/89 "Those same asteroids which promise material riches can be a threat as well." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/1/90 "For NASA, space is still a high priority." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, to NASA employees, 9/5/90 "We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward." -- Vice President Dan Quayle to a group of students at a Chicago school, 4/24/89 "[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system." -- Vice President Dan Quayle on the concept of a manned mission to Mars. "If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the Phoenix Republican Forum, 3/23/90 "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." -- Vice President Dan Quayle "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." -- Vice President Dan Quayle winning friends while speaking to the United Negro College Fund, 5/9/89 "People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history." -- Vice President Dan Quayle gives his opinion of the book "Nicholas and Alexandra" 9/28/88 "I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix." -- Vice President Dan Quayle "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." -- Vice President Dan Quayle in Hawaii, 4/25/89 "...getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision." -- Vice President Dan Quayle referring to his legislative work dealing with cruise missiles "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate, things." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 11/30/88 "We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward." -- Vice President Dan Quayle "This president is going to lead us out of this recovery. It will happen." -- Vice President Dan Quayle at a campaign stop at CA State University, Fresno, 1/17/92 "This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs." -- Vice President Dan Quayle discussing John Sununu's resignation and apparent lack of flexibility, 12/6/92 "We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur." -- Vice President Dan Quayle talking about the Mideast situation, 9/22/90 "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/22/89 "[The U.S. victory in the Gulf War was] a stirring victory for the forces of aggression." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 4/11/91 "I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman." -- Vice President Dan Quayle "The future will be better tomorrow." -- Vice President Dan Quayle "That's a very popular message. The problem is the messenger." -- Vice President Dan Quayle "Obviously, if you join the National Guard, you have less of a chance of going to Vietnam. I mean it goes without saying." -- Vice-President Dan Quayle discussing his draft record on NBC's "Meet the Press," 9/20/92 "A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls." -- Vice President Dan Quayle "We lead in exporting jobs." -- Vice President Dan Quayle committing a Freudian slip while speaking to the Evansville Chamber of Commerce (Indiana), a city which lost 4 large companies in the last 4 years. He quickly changed the word "jobs" to "products", 7/26/92 "I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it." -- Vice President Dan Quayle during a photo-op in LA, responding to criticisms that he didn't understand what it meant to live in the "inner city" 6/23/92 "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." -- Vice President Dan Quayle giving an in-depth analysis of the LA riots, at the SF Commonwealth Club, 5/19/92 "I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it." -- Vice President Dan Quayle defending his opinions about the TV show "Murphy Brown", 5/21/92 "And for those concerned about children growing up in poverty, we should know this: marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program of all." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, addressing the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, 5/19/92 "I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child." -- Vice President Dan Quayle to The Chron's Jerry Roberts "Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/20/92 "[Abortion] is not an issue with the American people. It is a figment of your imagination if you think that this is an issue that is talked about a lot." -- Vice President Dan Quayle to reporters while flying back to Washington, 9/24/92 "Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women." -- Vice-President Dan Quayle in Kansas City, MO, 9/2/92 "Speaking as a man, it's not a woman's issue. Us men are tired of losing our women." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, talking about breast cancer "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child." -- Vice President Dan Quayle "I hope there's some respect and dignity for things I did not do." -- Vice President Dan Quayle defending himself against allegations of involvement with Paula Parkinson, 8/23/88 "Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/18/90 "We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/21/88 "Add one little bit on the end... Think of `potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else...?" [The student respelled it, as "potatoe"] "There ya go! Alright!" -- Vice President Dan Quayle correcting a student during a spelling bee at an Trenton, NJ, elementary school, 6/15/92 "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'." - Vice President Dan Quayle, 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." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, confusing Andrew Jackson with Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, who got his nickname at the first Battle of Bull Run "I stand by all the misstatements that I've made." -- Vice President Dan Quayle to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89 "I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future." -- Vice President Dan Quayle "Public speaking is very easy." -- Vice President Dan Quayle to reporters in 10/88 "I'm the Vice-President. They know it, and they know that I know it." -- Vice President Dan Quayle talking about his political enemies, 3/13/89 "I wear their scorn as a badge of honor." -- Vice President Dan Quayle discussing how he copes with criticism from the media elite, 6/9/92 "I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican." -- Vice President Dan Quayle "I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service." -- Vice President (former senator, former congressman, etc.) Dan Quayle "The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, attempting to say the San Francisco quake wreckage was heart-rending, 10/30/89 "I would like to express my sympathy to all those impacted by this disaster." -- Vice President Dan Quayle standing in front of the collapsed 2-level freeway, after the Loma Preta quake "I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, stepping out of the helicopter upon arrival at Alameda Naval Air Station "The loss of life will be irreplaceable." -- Vice President Dan Quayle after the SF quake, 10/19/89 "I've heard people say that [I have a short attention span]. I don't feel I do, because when I'm interested in something I'll stay in focus as long as it is necessary. If you get off on something I'm not very interested in, it's very easy for me to block it out. It's easy for me to block things out." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1/12/92 "In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!" -- Vice President Dan Quayle in eastern Illinois, 10/19/88 Dan Quayle had a trip planned to Beijing, but was worried because of the turmoil at that end. His security adviser however informed him that it was pretty safe for Quayle as, "They are only harassing intellectuals." =========================================================================== >From the Original Dan Quayle Misquote Megalist, amassed by MICHAEL GOLDSMAN 36004 GA Tech Station, Atlanta, GA 30332 --- email: goldsman@cc.gatech.edu Further distilled, edited, and put into an amusing order by Mike Jittlov email: jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu & alt.fan.mike-jittlov @@@@ @@@@ @@@@ @@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@ @ @@@@@@@@@@@@ @ @@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@ @@@ @@@@ @@@@ @@@ @@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@ @@@@@@@ @@@@@@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ |