Select Quayle Topics: Public Speaking
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Public speaking is very easy.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle to reporters in 10/88
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Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
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-- Senator Dan Quayle, 10/30/88
(reported in Esquire, 8/92 and the LA Times, 10/30/88)
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I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89
(reported in Esquire, 8/92)
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Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to
catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone
forever.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/4/89
(reported in Esquire, 8/92)
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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.
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-- Senator Dan Quayle defending himself
(LA Herald Examiner 10/3/88)
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The mike works. That's very important to make sure the mike works, and
ours is working well.
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-- Senator Dan Quayle informing reporters of a successful
sound check before the VP debate, 10/5/88
(reported in Esquire, 8/92)
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they
aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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You smile discreetly, you look like you're enjoying yourself, like
you're ready to get down to serious business. You've got to be careful
what you say.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, on how to act in
front of the press.
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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that
Dan Quayle may or may not make.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, in a speech to the American
Society of Newspaper Editors, April 1991
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Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm
my own handler. Any questions? Ask me ... There's not going to be any more
handler stories because I'm the handler ... I'm Doctor Spin.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle responding to press reports
that his aides have had to, in effect, 'potty train' him
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