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• Let me say it one more time. It is ill-rel-e-vant.
  -- Senator Dan Quayle testily responding to repeated questions about his parents' involvement in the John Birch Society....
• I do- I do- I do- I do- what any normal person would do at that age.
  You call home. You call home to mother and father and say, "I'd like to get into the National Guard....
• I hope there's some respect and dignity for things I did not do.
• Life has been very good to me. I never had to worry about where I was going to go.
  But I do say, 'Dan, you know, sometime in life there's going to be a tragedy....
• That is not a yes or no question. -- Senator Dan Quayle during a somewhat heated exchange with reporters in 1988.
  Quayle indicated he would only accept "yes or no" questions for the rest of the session....
• When you get into conflict, and regional conflicts, I mean, you have to have certain goals, and a goal cannot be really a no-win situation.
  -- Senator Dan Quayle attempting to explain his military service during the Vietnam war....
• Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different sets of situations.
  And I tell you what, I'm not going to go out and hold a news conference about it....
• I'll have to check with my dad. -- Dan Quayle responding when an Indiana GOP county chairman asked him to run for Congress in 1976.
  (reported by the Washington Post, 10/2/88)...
• I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in this country.
  -- Senator Dan Quayle, 10/27/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)...