Dan Quayle

“A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.”

“For NASA, space is still a high priority.”

“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 love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.”

“I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.”

“I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.”

“It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”

“It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system!”  (on the concept of a manned mission to Mars)

“Public speaking is very easy.”

“Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.”

“The future will be better tomorrow.”

“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.”

“We don’t want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.”

“We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.”

“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”