Danforth Quayle

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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president. And that one word is ‘to be prepared’.

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

I’ve been 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 to talk about.

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 the money into the farmers’ hands. We get loan, uh, rates, we get target, uh, prices, uh, I have worked very closely with my senior colleague, Richard Lugar, making sure that the farmers of Indiana are taken care of.

It was just a job. It wasn’t any special interest in consumer affairs. I neede a paycheck and the attorney general said that I would be the best to go down there, because he knew that I was an anticonsumer.

We expect Salvadoran officials to work toward the elimination of human rights.

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 forty-nine states. Well, all states are different, but it’s got a particularly unique situation.

Let us see George Bush re-elected this November. And then we’ll talk about 1994.
Danforth knows his election years.

The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.
He’s talking about Latin America.

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

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

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

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

That’s fine phonetically, but you’re missing just a little bit.
Dan at a spelling bee

If we do not succed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.


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