Maineiac

George Bush, during his first Presidential campaign: "I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job"

Richard Nixon, while attending Charles De Gaulle's funeral: "This is a great day for France!"

George Bush, talking about drug abuse to a group of students: "Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know? ... I bet if they did, I hope I would say, 'Hey, get lost. We don't want any of that.'"

George Bush: "For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex ... uh...setbacks."

Dan Quayle: "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy. But that could change."

Dan Quayle during a visit to Hawaii in 1989: "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."

Dan Quayle addressing the United Negro College Fund: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind-or not to have a mind. How true that is."

William Donald Schaefer, first inaugural address: "I am honored today to begin my first term as the Governor of Baltimore-that is Maryland."

George Bush, on the Alaska pipeline: "The caribou love it. They rub against it and they have babies. There are more caribou in Alaska than you can shake a stick at."

George Bush: "I hope I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, anti-racism. This is what drives me."