Dan Quayle Quotes

I see more clearly than ever, and I thought I saw before, that congressional life is not the best introduction to the President's house. Great and fully equipped as the general [James Garfield] is, there are embarrassments growing out of his long and brilliant career in Congress, which Jackson and Lincoln, and Grant, and myself, escaped.

Let me tell you this: if Marco Rubio - even though he's only been in the Senate for a very short period of time, that man has a huge, huge opportunity in this country, and I think he could be the president.

I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

I really thought, with my background growing up, and my service, and all that, I thought it would be enough for the presidency. But... It sure was enough when I ran for Congress.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

I don't think you run just because political opportunity is there. That's how we wind up with politicians who aren't ready for their jobs.

It was flattering to have high expectations, but I was never going to be President.

I don't ever want to be president - let's just get that out of the way.

What has Dianne Feinstein done... I'll put my legislative background up against hers any day.

When I was 27, having never run for office before, I decided to run for Congress.

Like one of [Donald] Trump's sons said this is a huge step down for him to run for president. Like he's not doing it - let's just be clear.

Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.

Everybody's saying I should run for president.

I would never run for president.

It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that he was working on his memoirs all along, how he ran for Congress, that sort of thing.

If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they're little boys, they've been wanting to be President.

Ivanka Trump should probably run for office one day.

I'm not particularly interested in running for president.

I mean, when's the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running? I mean, he will have been a senator longer by the time he's inaugurated, but essentially once you start running for president full time you don't have time to do much else.

How could an actor become president?

Ted Cruz could be president of the United States. If you thought the Secret Service was drinking before

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president. I looking to be the president of the United States. Or, I'll be a private citizen, there's nothing wrong with being a private citizen.