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The Wit and Wisdom of Dan Quayle
| "We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
| "It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."
| "I was recently on a 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."
| "The loss of life will be irreplaceable." on the San Francisco earthquake.
| "Republicans understand the importance of bandage between a mother and child." a speech on family values.
| "It isn't the pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
| "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." At a fund raiser for the United Negro College Fund.
| "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."
| "I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
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Quotes From Other Political Leaders
| "The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder." | Former Chicago mayor Daley during the 1968 convention. "Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." | Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Ednerbery. "The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe." | Former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo. "The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep." | Clinton aide George Stephanopolous. "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president." | Hillary Clinton. "When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results." | President Calvin Coolidge. "A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money." | Sen. Everett Dirksen. "Smoking kills, and if you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." | Anti-Smoking Spokesperson Brooke Shields. |
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