'I was recently on tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people' - J. Danforth Quayle 'If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure' - J. Danforth Quayle 'Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'Welcome to President Bush, Mrs Bush, and my fellow Astronauts' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'Mar is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means oceans and oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.' - Vice President 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.' - Vice President 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.' - 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 "to be prepared".' -Vice President Dan Quayle 'May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.' - The Quayles' 1989 Christmas Card 'Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'The future will be better tomorrow.' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'We are going to have the best educated American people in the world.' - Vice Presient Dan Quayle 'I stand by all the misstatements that I have made.' - Vice President 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.' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'I am not part of the Problem, I am Republican.' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in the 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.' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.' - Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/18/92 'We are not ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not happen.' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'For NASA, space is still a high priority.' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach out children.' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or not make.' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'We are all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'It isn't pollution that is harming the environment. It is the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'It's time for the human race ot enter the solar system.' - Vice President Dan Quayle 'People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.' - Vice President J. Danforth Quayle.