Select Quayle Topics: International Affairs
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[The US] condones violence in El Salvador.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle reveals what people have
known for years. 1/31/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
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We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of
human rights in accordance with the pursuit of Justice.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 2/3/89
(reported in The Chicago Tribune, 2/4/89)
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices
to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a
single voice.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of
the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP,
two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 10/2/89
(reported in Esquire, 8/92)
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Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in
Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia.
Unbelievable.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle.
Actually, Dubcek was the leader of the Prague Spring.
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Senator Bentsen talks about recapturing the foreign markets. Well, I'll
tell you one way that we're not going to recapture the foreign markets, and
that is, in fact, we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter
grain embargo. Jimmy Carter's grain embargo set the American farmer back.
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-- Senator Dan Quayle.
Washington Post transcript (10/6/88)
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Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism.
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-- Senator Dan Quayle (9/04/88)
(from the Book 'The Clothes have No Emperor')
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We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle talking about the Mideast
situation, 9/22/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
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[The U.S. victory in Gulf war was] a stirring victory for the
forces of aggression.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 4/11/91
(reported in Esquire, 8/92)
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I'm ready.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle describing his ability
to take over the presidency after President Bush vomits
and collapses in Tokyo, 1/8/92 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
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