Quayleisms Don't forget about the importance of the family. It begins with the family. We're not going to redefine the family. Everybody knows the definition of the family. [Meaningful pause] A child. [Meaningful pause] A mother. [Meaningful pause] A father. There are other arrangements of the family, but that is a family and family values. I've been very blessed with wonderful parents and a wonderful family, and I am proud of my family. Anybody turns to their family. 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 suppose three important things certainly come to my mind that we want to say thank you. The first would be our family. Your family, my family -- which is composed of an immediate family of a wife and three children, a larger family with grandparents and aunts and uncles. We all have our family, whichever that may be ... The very beginnings of civilization, the very beginnings of this country, goes back to the family. And time and time again, I'm often reminded, especially in this Presidential campaign, of the importance of a family, and what a family means to this country. And so when you pay thanks I suppose the first thing that would come to mind would be to thank the Lord for the family. -- Vice President Dan Quayle 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. -- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the American Samoans whose capital Quayle pronounces RPogo PogoS Quayle stumbled in response to a question about his opinion of the Holocaust. He said it was Ran obscene period in our nation's history.S Then, trying to clarify his remark, Quayle said he meant Rthis century's historyS and added a confusing comment, RWe all lived in this century, I didn't live in this centuryS, he said. -- Vice President Dan Quayle We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights. -- Vice President Dan Quayle  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. -- Vice President Dan Quayle I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. -- Vice President Dan Quayle One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is Tto be prepared'. -- Vice President Dan Quayle If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure. -- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the Phoenix Republican Forum, March 1990 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. -- Vice President Dan Quayle Target prices? How that works? I know quite a bit about farm policy. I come from Indiana, which is a farm state. Deficiency payments - which are the key - that is what gets money into the farmer's hands. We got loan, uh, rates, we got target, uh, prices, uh, I have worked very closely with my senior colleague, [Indiana Senator] Richard Lugar, making sure that the farmers of Indiana are taken care of. -- Vice President Dan Quayle on being asked to define the term Rtarget pricesS. Quayle's press secretary then cut short the press conference, after two minutes and 30 seconds. I'm not going to focus on what I have done in the past, what I stand for, what I articulate to the American people. The American people will judge me on what I am saying and what I have done in the last 12 years in the Congress. -- Vice President Dan Quayle I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman. -- Vice President Dan Quayle We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in TRed Storm Rising'. -- Vice President Dan Quayle The 'S has a vital interest in that area of the country. -- Vice President Dan Quayle referring to Latin America. Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the 'nites States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself. -- Vice President Dan Quayle Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. 'nbelievable. -- Vice President Dan Quayle. Actually, Dubcek was the leader of the Prague Spring. May our nation continue to be the beakon [sic] of hope to the world. -- The Quayle's 1989 Christmas card. [Not a beacon of literacy, though.] Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part. -- Vice President Dan Quayle referring to the collapsed section of the 880 freeway after the San Francisco earthquake of 1989. [This may be a joke; the source is unclear. But it's still funny] ...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 I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time. -- Vice President Dan Quayle addressing workers at an Ohio steel plant, 1988 [I will never have] another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo. -- Vice President Dan Quayle during the Benson debate [illegible]... 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? -- Vice President Dan Quayle when asked what he would do if he assumed the Presidency, 1988 Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler... I'm Doctor Spin. -- Vice President Dan Quayle responding to press reports his aides having to, in effect, Rpotty trainS him. I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in this country. -- Vice President Dan Quayle Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. -- Vice President Dan Quayle The real question for 1988 is whether we're going to go forward to tomorrow or past to the -- to the back! -- Vice President Dan Quayle We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America. -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988 We'll let the sunshine in and shine on us, because today we're happy and tomorrow we'll be even happier. -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988 We're going to have the best-educated American people in the World. -- Vice President Dan Quayle This election is about who's going to be the next President of the 'nited States! -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988