"I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it."

"Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement."

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe."

"I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe."

"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."

"This President is going to lead us out of this recovery."

"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."

"I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years."

"What you guys want, I'm for."

"The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?"

"I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings."

"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

"When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is."

"I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child."

"People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite."

"It shows 'us vs. them', and I'm on the 'us' side."

"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."

"My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right."

"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."

"I was known as the chief grave robber of my state."

"If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check."

"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."

"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."

"We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward."

"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."

"The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make."

"The loss of life will be irreplaceable."

"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."

"Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it."

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."

"Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists."

"Someday I intend to read all those books I've written."

"The mind is a terrible thing!"

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."

"They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we're going to continue to help."

"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it."

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."

"I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman."

"You do the policy, I'll do the politics."

"You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be."

"I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it."

"Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton."

"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made."

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."

"Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!"

"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."

"Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts."

"I've never professed to be anything but an average student."