"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
"I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California."
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."

"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor like you like to be liked yourself."
"The most important job is not to be Governor, or First Lady in my case."

"If people can judge me on the company I keep, they would judge me with keeping really good company with Laura."
"You don't need to be smart to be president"
"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating."
"Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning"
"Actually, I -- this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about -- when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me."
I think we agree, the past is over."
"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometime until we get an objective analysis."
"I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California."
We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations; their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal cufflink."
"The fact that he relies on facts -- says things that are not factual -- are going to undermine his campaign."
"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature."
"I understand small business growth. I was one."
"How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?"
"The senator has got to understand if he's going to have he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road."
"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."
We ought to make the pie higher."
"I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth."
"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case."
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
"The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?"
"When it is all said and done, I will have made more money than I ever dreamed I would make."
"I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember."
"Put the 'off' button on."
"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself."
"I would have said yes to abortion if only it was right. I mean, yeah it's right. Well no it's not right that's why I said no to it."
"There ought to limits to freedom"
You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."
"There's a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.'"
"Down in Washington they're playing with Social Security like it's some kind of government program!"
"The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!"
My opponent seems to think that Social Security is a federal program. I believe that money is yours and you should be able to invest it yourself."
"I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions --but I don't always agree with them."
"I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes."- Richard Nixon
Solutions are not the answer.
Richard Nixon

People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like.
Richard Nixon

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

I love California; I practically grew up in Phoenix.
Dan Quayle

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

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

The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle

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.
Dan Quayle

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.
Dan Quayle

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

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.
Dan Quayle

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
Dan Quayle

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

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracybut that could change.
Dan Quayle

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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.
Dan Quayle, Speech to the United Negro College Fund

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.
Dan Quayle

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

For NASA, space is still a high priority.
Dan Quayle

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

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

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
Dan Quayle

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan