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Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

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Dan Quayle
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 4
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Former Vice President Of The United States
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Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else...? There ya go...alright!
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Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.
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I'd like to get into the National Guard.
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We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
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The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.
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No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.
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Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me ... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler ... I'm Doctor Spin.
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I work with the president almost on a daily basis. I was with him until 6:30 last night. I'll be with him Thursday morning. We talk every day.
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The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.
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If you listen to the news, read the news, you'd think we were still in a recession. Well, we're not in a recession. We've had growth people need to know that. They need to be more upbeat, more positive.
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They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes.
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