Dan Quayle

"I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days."

Gerhard Schroeder

"I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home."

Charles McC Mathias, Jr.

"I deserve respect for the things I did not do."

Dan Quayle

"I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible."

Dan Quayle

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

Will Rogers

"I happen to be a Republican president - ah, the vice president."

Dan Quayle

"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

Arthur C. Clarke

"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."

Dan Quayle

"I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future."

Dan Quayle

"I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office."

Thomas Jefferson

"I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service."

Dan Quayle

"I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows."

Edward Koch

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."

Dan Quayle

"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American."

Andy Warhol

"I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer."

Geraldine A. Ferraro

"I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings."

Dan Quayle

"I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot."

Gary Hart

"I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman."

Dan Quayle

"I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot."

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

"I was known as the chief grave robber of my state."

Dan Quayle

"I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years."

Dan Quayle

"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"

Will Rogers

"I'm the lamest lame duck there could be."

George C. Wallace

"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."

Oliver Stone