You're right, it was Dan Quayle. The really funny thing is that he never said it. It started as a joke that one of his friends told other friends. The friends that heard the joke didn't realize it was a joke and told other people and it eventually made it's way to the late night shows. That's the funniest part, Quayle's friends didn't realize that it was a joke, they just took it to be another stupid thing that Quayle said/did.
The Grand Outdated Party is going down and it's not on a pretty whore.
Well, Quayle
did give us:
"P-O-T-A-T-O-E"
"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."
"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."
"I deserve respect for the things I did not do."
"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."
"I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child."
"I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman."
"If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime."
"It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."
"It's a very good historical book about history."
"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."
"It's a question of whether we're going to go foward into the future, or past to the back."
"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."
"The future will be better tomorrow."
"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."
"The loss of life will be irreplaceable."
"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."
"This President is going to lead us out of this recovery."
"We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward."
"We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'."
"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
Dan Quayle makes Bush and his
whole cabinet look like Mensa.