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I Hope There's Some Respect And Dignity For Things I Did Not Do.
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I hope there's some respect and dignity for things I did not do.
-- Senator Dan Quayle defending himself against
allegations of involvement with Paula Parkinson,
8/23/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
Related:
I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in this country.
-- Senator Dan Quayle, 10/27/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)...
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 deserve respect for the things I did not do. -- Vice President Dan Quayle
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....
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....
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 take my children hiking and fishing, walking in the woods.
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
-- Senator Dan Quayle defending himself (LA Herald Examiner 10/3/88)...
I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.