Frasi di Dan Quayle

James Danforth Quayle, meglio conosciuto come Dan Quayle, , è un politico statunitense.

✵ 4. Febbraio 1947
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Dan Quayle: Frasi in inglese

“We understand the importance of having the bondage between the parent and the child.”

Video, " Who is Dan Quayle? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW2K0-VItAk"

“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.”

Interview with Cathleen Decker (5 September 2008) "Before Sarah Palin, the GOP had Dan Quayle", Los Angeles Times

“Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.”

Speech to the Commonwealth Club of California (19 May 1992)
Commonwealth Club speech

“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”

Interview with Hendrik Hertzburg (October 1988), referring to Grigori Rasputin

“For NASA, space is still a high priority.”

Remarks to NASA employees, 9/5/1990, reported in Esquire (August 1992)
Attributed

“What we have here is clear-cut evidence that illegitimacy—something I've always said we should talk about in terms of not having it—leads to drug abuse.”

Remarks (20 May 1992), quoted in Esquire (August 1992) and Ann Beatts (23 November 1997) "ABSURDUM; Murphy Brown's Got Dan All Fired Up Again," Los Angeles Times
Attributed

“It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.”

If Quayle said this, he would only be repeating a phrase that first appeared in print approximately 100 years earlier. See: Staff writer (13 May 1889) "The Great State of Chicago," Chicago Daily Tribune; Staff writer (13 April 1895) " The State of Chicago http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E00E0DB103AE533A25750C1A9629C94649ED7CF," New York Times; Norman Mailer (1968) Miami and the Siege of Chicago
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“Mars 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 there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.”

Press comment on Mars exploration http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN89/wn090189.html (11 August 1989), televised on CNN, and referenced in "A Quayle Vision of Mars" in The Washington Post (1 September 1989)

“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.”

U.S. Representative Claudine Schneider (RI) telling an admitted joke about Quayle
"Quayle Quotes" http://www.snopes.com/quotes/quayle.htm, Urban Legends Reference Pages
Misattributed

“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”

Cited to the Cleveland Plain Dealer (27 September 1990)

“You’re close, but you left a little something off. The 'e' on the end.”

Luis Muñoz Rivera Elementary School in Trenton, New Jersey (15 June 1992), correcting student William Figueroa on his spelling of "potato."

“If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.”

Attributed to a speech in Phoenix, Arizona to the Phoenix Republican Forum (23 March 1990), quoted in Esquire (August 1992)
Attributed

“The future will be better tomorrow.”

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_xcaBdBHf4

“I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.”

Although Quayle's home town is in Arizona, it is only a two and a half hour drive from the California border.
Attributed

“When you take the UNCF model that, what a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind is being very wasteful, how true that is.”

Speech to the United Negro College Fund (9 May 1989), mangling the Fund's slogan "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."

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