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• Obviously, if you join the National Guard, you have less of a chance of going to Vietnam.
  I mean it goes without saying....
• Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand.
  [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time....
• 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....
• My position is that I understand from a medical situation, immediately after a rape is reported, that a woman normally, in fact, can go to the hospital and have a D and C.
  At that time... that is before the forming of a life....
• 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'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 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....
• And it was a very good book of Rasputin's involvement in that, which shows how people that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
  -- Senator Dan Quayle gives his opinion of the book -- "Nicholas, and Alexandra," to Hendrick Hertzberg of the -- New Republic, 9/28/88 (reported in Savvy Woman, 1/89, p....
• 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....