Dan Quayle on Climate Change

 

We love it when he gets all science-y.

The Quote:

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

Who said it?

Dan Quayle is a Republican politician who served as the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 under President George H. W. Bush.

A native of Indiana, Quayle began his political career representing the Hoosier State in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1981. At just 33 years old, he made history in 1980 as the youngest person ever elected to the U.S. Senate from Indiana. Serving from 1981 to 1989, Quayle achieved another milestone in 1986 by securing reelection with the largest margin of victory in Indiana's history at that time. (Source: Wikepedia)

Unfortunately, Quayle’s tenure as vice president was marred by frequent verbal missteps and gaffes (such as correcting a student’s proper spelling of "potato" to "potatoe.") This made him a target of late-night comedians and media ridicule, overshadowing his accomplishments and cementing his public image as a stupid politician prone to blunders.

Today, his gaffes are endearingly known as  'Quayle-isms.'

 Recommended Reading:

Standing Firm

by Dan Quayle

For those convinced that Richard Nixon was finished politically in the early 1960s, that Ronald Reagan was too old and extreme for the White House even in the 1970s, and that Quayle is too mediocre, dangerous, and dumb for the Oval Office, this book serves as an antidote. —Library Journal

No politician has been savaged by the press more than Dan Quayle. It's hardly surprising, then, that the villains in his account of his vice-presidency are Sam Donaldson;  the New York Times, the Washington Post; and sometimes--but not always--Dan Rather. 

However, in Standing Firm,  former Vice President Dan Quayle nurses no grudges with journalists.  He also says Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton are great guys.

Part personal narrative and part political commentary, Standing Firm is a candid and inspiring memoir 

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