Dan Quayle Political Quotations

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well.

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made

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

The world is beset by challenges including the ongoing danger of international terrorism, and the significant political and economic threats posed by factors such as the high levels of corporate and sovereign debt and persistent unemployment.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.