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• You can't argue with the vice president, can you?
  -- William Figueroa, the 12-year-old told by Dan Quayle that potato is spelled 'potatoe'...
• I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card.
  But as Mark Twain once said, "You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word....
• You say potatoe, And I say potato. You say tomatoe, And I say tomato.
  Potatoe, potato, Tomatoe, tomato. Let's go be the Vice President......
• My opponent knows less about national defense than I know about spelling.
  Even I know it's Cruise missiles, not Patriot missiles that go through doors and chimneys....
• Kernal" is not a word. The correct spelling is "kernel".
• One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that ONE word is 'to be prepared'.
  -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 12/6/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)...
• We are doing the right thing and we do not see the bad things.
  -- Vice President Dan Quayle pretending he is one of the wise monkeys....
• Vice President Dan Quayle won't be in the Office today, since his wife was sick and there was no one else available to dress him.
• If Ross Perot runs, that's good for us. If he doesn't run, it's good for us.
  [a reporter then asked him what he meant by that] That's for you to figure out....