quaylism

Example Sentences

• "For a more comprehensive list of “Quaylisms” see Jeremy Solomon and Ken Brady, The Dan Quayle Quiz Book: For People Who Think They Are Smarter Than the Vice-President (Boston: Little, Brown, 1989)."
• "During his vice presidency, Quayle became noted for making unfortunate remarks in public, and a large number of stories were circulated about things he had said. Many of these so-called ‘Quaylisms’ are not genuine."
• "Quayle, I suppose, deserves credit for the cheerful fashion in which he tries to tell the full story of each of the verbal miscues of his vice presidential tenure. But this near-encyclopedic recital ended up reminding me of near-forgotten Quaylisms like the speech in American Samoa where he told the crowd that they looked like “happy campers.”"
• "When I began my research for the Dan Quayle interview, I went to the Internet, and the first quote to jump out at me went like this: “I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.” What? I wondered if these “Quaylisms” were made up by those who have nothing better to do than to criticize the former vice president."
• "Second banana Dan Quayle’s tongue tangles were so numerous that they spawned an actual periodical that anthologized his Quaylisms."
• "So, even though the quote was misinterpreted, the “Gore invented Internet” virus has spread far and wide, distributed by daily newspapers and talk shows around the world, without anyone confirming its veracity before passing it along. Such misinformation then becomes the latest one-liner, just as we used to smirk at the so-called “Quaylisms.” I now wonder how many of THOSE statements were really made by the former Vice President."