"Smoking kills, and if you're killed, you've lost a very important
part of your life."
Anti-smoking spokesperson
Brooke Shields
"We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
Former U.S. Vice-President
Dan Quayle
"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve
disorder"
Former Chicago
Mayor Daley
during the infamous 1968 convention
"If you've seen one Redwood tree, you've seen them all"
Forestry expert
Ronald Reagan
"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas"
Former Australian cabinet minister
Kep Enderby
"It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago"
Former U.S. Vice-President
Dan Quayle
"The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make
them unsafe"
Former Philadelphia Mayor and Police Chief
Frank Rizzo
"The internet is a great way to get on the net"
Republican presidential candidate
Bob Dole
"He was a man of great statue"
Boston mayor
Thomas Menino
on former mayor John Collins
"It's like an alcatraz around my neck"
Boston mayor
Menino
on the shortage of city parking spaces
"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"
Former U.S. Vice-President
Dan Quayle
"They're multipurpose. Not only do they put the clips on, but they
take them off."
Pratt & Whitney spokesperson explaining why the company charged the
Air Force nearly $1000 for an ordinary pair of pliers.
"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep."
Clinton aide
George Stephanopolous
speaking on Larry King Live
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
Jason Kidd,
upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
"When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."
Former U.S. President
Calvin Coolidge
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese"
Former French President
Charles De Gaulle
"The loss of life will be irreplaceable."
Former U.S. Vice-President
Dan Quayle
on the San Francisco earthquake
"The government is not doing enough about cleaning up the environment.
This is a good planet."
Mr. New Jersey contestant when asked what he would do with a million
dollars.
"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots
and the killing in 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."
Former U.S. Vice-President
Dan Quayle
on the complex social issues
behind the Los Angeles Riots
"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
Former U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and
child. "
Former U.S. Vice-President
Dan Quayle
on Republican family values
"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
Philadelphia Phillies manager
Danny Ozark
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities
in our air and water that are doing it."
Former U.S. 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."
Former U.S. Vice-President
Dan Quayle
at a fundraising event for the
United Negro College Fund. He was attempting to quote the line "a mind
is a terrible thing to waste"
"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."
Former U.S. Vice-President
Dan Quayle
"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
Former U.S. Vice-President
Dan Quayle