Kiitos
Palautetta on, toisinaan, mukava saada. Paitsi palautteesta, olen myös
kiitollinen siitä, etten asu Yhdysvalloissa.
"My pro-life position is I believe there's life. It's not necessarily
based in religion. I think there's a life there, therefore the notion
of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness."
—Quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 23, 2001
"Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I
started thinking about a lot of things. I was able to—I can't remember
what it was. Oh, the inaugural speech, started thinking through that."
—Pre-inaugural interview with U.S. News & World Report, Jan.
22, 2001 issue
"Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep
the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to
be an assignment."
—Interview with the New York Times, Jan. 14, 2001
"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating
plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants."—Interview
with the New York Times, Jan. 14, 2001
"They misunderestimated me."
—Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
—Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
"You've heard Al Gore say he invented the internet. Well, if he
was so smart, why do all the addresses begin with "W"?"
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."
—LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000
"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a
gun."
"Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about."
"If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for,
then I'm for it."
—St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000
"Our priorities is our faith."
—Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000
"It's going to require numerous IRA agents."
—On Gore's tax plan, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000
"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier
to answer questions. I can't answer your question."
—In response to a question about whether he wished he could take
back any of his answers in the first debate. Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct.
4, 2000
... I've been talking to Vicente Fox, the new president of Mexico...
I know him... to have gas and oil sent to U.S.... so we'll not depend
on foreign oil...
-- on the first Presidential debate, 10/03/2000
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
—Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000
"I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy."
—Redwood, Calif., Sept. 27, 2000
"One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations
rise above that which is expected." --Los Angeles, Sept. 27, 2000
"...more and more of our imports are coming from overseas."
-- On NPR's Morning Edition (9/26)
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Quayleisms:
I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
-- Senator Dan Quayle
Let me say it one more time. It is ill-rel-e-vant.
-- Senator Dan Quayle testily responding to repeated questions about
his parents' involvement in the John Birch Society. (reported in the
Washington Post, 10/10/88)
It shows `us vs. them,' and I'm on the
`us' side.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle explaining the strategy behind his twitting
of `cultural elites'. (The Indianapolis Star, 6/14/92 -- taken from
the Quayle Quarterly, Summer/Fall 1992)
I felt like I was in charge.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle after working the locks of the Panama
Canal locks during his visit to Panama City in January 1990. (reported
in High Times, 11/92)
I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys might
find of interest.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, when purchasing a South American Indian
Doll that, when lifted, displays an erection, 3/11/90 (reported in
Esquire, 8/92)
Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that
is by itself. It is a -- it is different than the other 49 states.
Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique
situation.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle when a woman at a hospital in Colorado
Springs asked Mr. Quayle whether Hawaii's universal health-care plan
might serve as a national model. (reported in the NY Times, 10/7/92
and the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette 10/11/92)
Somewhere between real and real real.
-- Senator Dan Quayle pinpointing their location to reporters aboard
the Quayle campaign plane. (reported in Wall Street Journal, 10/21/88)
My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my
grandfather was right.
-- Vice-President Dan Quayle giving an analysis of his own situation:
he has a half-million dollars worth of his family's newspaper stock
holdings. (ABC's `Prime Time Live', August 10, 1992)
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