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• I did not know in 1969 that I would be in this room today, I'll confess.
  -- Senator Dan Quayle responding to questions in 1988 about allegations that he used family connections to get into the Indiana National Guard....
• 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....
• Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign?
  The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor last week....
• 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....
• 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....
• Quayle stumbled in response to a question about his opinion of the Holocaust.
  He said it was "an obscene period in our nation's history....
• Absolutely. I certainly hope I am. -- Vice President Dan Quayle on whether he is still on the -- Republican ticket.
  (Newsweek, August 10, 1992.)...
• Vice President Dan Quayle wants to do something significant, and in his quest to accomplish this he went to the morgue in Washington recently and announced that he was ready.
  If anyone ever puts a price on his head, he should take it....
• I hope I never have to deal with it. But obviously I would counsel her and talk to her and support her on whatever decision she made.
  -- Vice President Dan Quayle responding to Larry King's question of how he would react if his 13-year-old daughter chose to have an abortion....