US Vice-President Dan Quayle urging Congress to display "enthusiastic" support for armed forces "ready to do whatever the President asks" (leading to the 1991 Gulf War).

THEY, are ready to do, whatever the President asks. Their biggest concern, incidentally, is domestic political considerations. THEY, our armed forces, are concerned their mission may not be finished, and they'll go home, ONLY TO BE CALLED BACK AGAIN IN A YEAR OR TWO, to finish the job. THEY want to avoid this, and so does the President. The brave men and women of our armed forces stand ready, to PROTECT the vital interests of America. They will do, their duty, and they will do it well. And they deserve our TOTAL, and ENTHUSIASTIC support. (ENTHUSIASTIC APPLAUSE)

Vice-President Dan Quayle on Social Issues

I can see the hate that was there; I can see the bigotry. I can see it from his perspective.

-- Vice President Dan Quayle discussing his impressions of `The Autobiography of Malcolm X'. (The Wall Street Journal, 6/8/92 -- taken from The Quayle Quarterly, Summer/Fall 1992)

I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in this country.

-- Senator Dan Quayle, 10/27/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

-- Senator Dan Quayle, 9/21/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.

-- Vice President Dan Quayle during a photo-op in LA, responding to criticisms that he didn't understand what it meant to live in the `inner city'. (WRAL 6/23/92)

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

-- Vice President Dan Quayle giving an intelligent, in-depth analysis of the LA riots. (during the Commonwealth Club speech 5/19/92)

There is one picture on TV I'll never forget - the picture of a man being pulled from his truck and being beaten to death.

-- Vice President Dan Quayle talking about a LA riot video tape showing 33-year-old Reginald Denny being beaten unconscious. Denny, however, did not die from the attack. (Reported by AP 5/1/92, taken from the Quayle Quarterly, Summer/Fall 1992)

My viewpoint is that it's more of a choice than a biological situation... I think it is a wrong choice. It is a wrong; it is a wrong choice. I do believe in most cases it certainly is a choice.

-- Vice-President Dan Quayle discussing his views on homosexuality while on `This Week with David Brinkley' 9/13/92. (reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, 9/14/92)

A very positive message.

-- Vice President Dan Quayle after listening to a sermon in which a Georgia minister condemned homosexuality as `satanic'. (Newsweek, 11/92)