Dan Quayle

“Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.”

“I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.”

“We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.”

“We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.”

“Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.”

“The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.”

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

“Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.”

“My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.”

“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.”

“In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!”

“I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.”

“Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.”

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

“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.”

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

“It's a very good historical book about history.”

“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.”

“Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.”

“The loss of life will be irreplaceable.”