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

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

  • I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

  • We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

  • Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.

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

  • The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

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

  • This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

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

  • What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

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

  • Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

  • The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

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

  • I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

  • Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

  • Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

  • I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

  • This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

  • We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

  • It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

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

  • I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

  • I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

  • You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

  • I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

  • I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

  • If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

  • 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.

  • Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

  • One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

  • Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

  • People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

  • The future will be a better tomorrow.

  • People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

  • I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

  • Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.

  • We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

  • The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?

  • It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

  • I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

  • Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different sets of situations and I tell you what, I'm not going to go out and hold a news conference about it. I'm going to put it in a safe and keep it there! Does that answer your question?

  • While it is important to be aware of and sensitive to cultural differences when conducting business internationally, the principles of transparency, trust, and partnership are universal.

  • Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.

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

  • It would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.

  • Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well.

  • 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.

  • The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's 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.

  • I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.

  • I also try to discipline myself when I get into a situation ... and I'm trying to think of an answer, instead of being verbose, which is a tendency that I have, to be concise. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

  • My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.

  • We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

  • I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

  • Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

  • This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977.

  • Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

  • Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

  • Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.

  • Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.

  • For NASA, space is still a high priority.

  • We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

  • 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'.

  • We do, in former chairman Lee Atwater's words, offer the party as a big tent, and therefore that message has to be clear. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity.

  • I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

  • You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

  • 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.

  • We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

  • Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

  • We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

  • This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

  • I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

  • I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

  • 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.

  • People are not homeless if they're sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns.

  • It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

  • It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

  • It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.

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

  • 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.

  • When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

  • A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

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

  • The two-party system has served America very well. We always have political movements one way or another but the evolution of a lasting third party probably will not happen.

  • It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.

  • When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

  • If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

  • The future will be better tomorrow.

  • Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

  • 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.

  • Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

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

  • We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

  • The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

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

  • The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

  • 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.

  • It's a very good historical book about history.

  • It shows 'us vs. them', and I'm on the 'us' side.

  • I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

  • No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.

  • If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

  • We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.

  • Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.

  • Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons.

  • Pakistan always seems to have a lot of political complexities and political challenges. But Pakistan is important for a number of reasons. Primarily, it is a nuclear power. And if, in fact, al Qaeda and Taliban, which are in Pakistan and causing a lot of tragedies and deaths in Pakistan - if they would ever somehow have real influence and control of that government, then we [world] really have a problem.

  • Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else...? There ya go...alright!

  • I used to smoke marijuana, but that was when I was in college, before it was a drug.

  • We all lived in this century, I didn't live in this century,

  • On the security front, the United States must continue to play a leadership role. There simply is not another country in the world that commands the respect or has the capabilities that we do, and we must not shrink from our responsibilities.

  • Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision.

  • Mars is essentially in the same orbit...somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water.

  • We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

  • A good debater can be a good communicator. You have to communicate when you're president of the United States, and communicate effectively with the American people, and with the world.

  • We'll let the sunshine in and shine on us, because today we're happy and tomorrow we'll be even happier.

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