Speech by Dan Quayle on the Republican Candidates

This device spread Charlie Bass thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you too. Art and Pat Krueger for having this family farm day. I can assure you I feel like I'm right back in Indiana. We have a lot of farms. Very much of a rural community that makes up our great Hoosier state. But Charlie Bassa you talked about your first term I guarantee and we're going to make sure that it happens you're going to get your second term as well. And the reason that is going to happen is because we're all going to work together and to support you and your family for what you have done as a member of Congress. Charlie's been there less than two years but he's already made a mark on that Congress. He works hard for his constituency. He knows the issues he comes home.

He communicates with you and you know what he's doing what he told you do he told you he'd go down there and vote for a balanced budget and welfare reform and go on down the list of things. And isn't it refreshing to have somebody in political life tell you what they're going to do and then actually keep their word. Wouldn't it be nice if we had a president of the United States that would tell you what he's going to do and keep their word. Because I look at Jonathan running around. I can't help all these kids. Think back to indiana out on the farm and when Marilyn I were campaigning for Congress and our reelection our children were small at that time as well. It's a matter of fact our second son Charlie and Lisa appreciate this our second son was born three days after my election to Congress in 1976 when I was 29 years old. And our third and last child was born three weeks after my re-election to Congress in 1978 and then Bob I decided to run for the Senate and I said Marilyn how about twins.

She looked at me she says you can have the next one. Well we've been blessed with three great children and I just am delighted to be here and to share a few moments with you and how important this election is to make sure that our people stay in the Congress. I know that Charlie Bass and I know that Bob Smith is going to be targeted by very liberal outside special interest groups that will have a lot of independent expenditures coming into New Hampshire. Just get ready for it because that's going to happen. And the reason that's going to happen is because it took the Republicans 40 years to get the majority in the Congress and now they have realized the opponents have come to understand and to appreciate and they perhaps knew all along that where the power of spending and rulemaking and tax creating exists. It starts in the Congress of the United States. How do you think we got into this mess of an overtaxed

economy of having the federal bureaucrats regulators day in and day out. How do you think we got into this mess where our power got transferred from the people right here on this farm in this community back to Washington D.C. I think it was Democratic presidents. No it was a Democratic ruled Congress for 40 years and we put an end to that in 1994 and in 1996 we are going to campaign once again for the people and with the people and we're going to take our campaign and our issues to the people and ask for their support and our agenda is very straightforward. Our agenda is to lower taxes. Our agenda is to balance the budget. Our agenda is for a smaller government. Our agenda is to take that power back out there in Washington D.C. and put it right back into this community where it belongs and we're going to reform the welfare system. And we're going to reform the welfare system and put the principles of work and marriage in the

forefront with this whole system of ours is just turned upside down. What kind of a chaotic corrupt system do you have where you try to get people to do the right thing and if they get married they're paralyzed or if they go to work they're paralyzed. We're not just going to tinker with it just get rid of it. The system doesn't work start all over. We're going to help people. We're going to help people because we're committed to people. That's why we're in public life because we want to do what is right and we are going to take our campaign once again to the people. But just be prepared. I mean this is going to be a distorted campaign and you are going to have all these out-of-state special interest groups coming in here with all sorts of money and telling you all sorts of things. But you know in your heart what kind of Congressman Charlie Bass has been he's been an outstanding member of Congress. He has made a difference. And by golly you are going to go back and represent the people of this great congressional district. One more

time and we're going to make sure that that happens. As long as Bob's Bob Smith is here he's been a friend for quite some time. He also he has done a tremendous job in that United States Senate. And let us keep this man of principle in the Senate. And if you have any doubt about what to do just ask John Sununu. I mean John sort of retiring a little bashful these days. You know he's a laid back Governor you know him very well but very seldom speak his mind but he'll tell you if you really cozy up to him say John tell me what's going on here. He'll lay it out there and he'll give you the direction if you need any direction. But I spent the night with John and Nancy Sununu last night and we've had a wonderful weekend in New Hampshire. And before I depart I want to say just a couple things about our presidential candidate and the Republican message. Bob Dole with

your help is going to be the next president of the United States. Now we might as well accept a basic fact and that is that Bill Clinton will not tell the American people what he's going to do if he's re-elected. He didn't tell the American people during that campaign in 1992 what he'd do if he would get elected if he had told the American people instead of having a middle tax middle class tax cut that he promised instead of having the largest tax increase in the history of the republic and if he had told us that he's really going to have the government run the health care system if he had told us all those things that he was really going to do during the campaign folks I'd still be your vice president today. But he didn't but he didn't then and he won't now. He won't tell us what he's going to do and he's going to try to co-op all of our issues. Fine. Let him speak like a

republican let him try to act like a Republican. Welcome. But when it comes time to vote on November 5th let us vote Republican and let us have a Republican in the White House and a Republican in the Congress. And then you will see change in this country. You will then see lower taxes and less government. You can't do it with a divided government. You can't do it when one party controls the White House and when another party controls the Congress it's just simply not going to happen. You've got filibusters in the Senate you might be able to get it. And most of the contract with America did get through the house and they voted on it. We're going to talk about what we're going to do it if we get a Republican Congress and a Republican White House. Then you can expect that taxes are going to go down not up. You can expect that the welfare system is going to be reform you can expect that choice is going to be a principal in our education system. You can expect that we're going to take on the trial lawyers and reform this legal system. You can expect that we will invest in our national security and begin to deploy a strategic defense initiative that is desperately needed for this country.

And you can expect a commitment to speak about values and the importance of our families and our neighborhoods and our communities. I get quite a kick out of these days Bill Clinton out there talking about family values. I remember in 1992 when I made one of my more or less non-controversial speeches on this subject out there in California. Where I had the audacity to broach the issue of the family and family values and to say this outrageously controversial statement that would be the best interests of our children to be born and raised in an intact family. Not that single parents and especially single mothers can do it. My mother was raised by a single mother because my mother or my grandmother and grandfather were divorced. But that's the model. It was outrageously controversial. I still to this day don't quite understand all the controversy but it was there in 1992. And guess who

is leading the charge of the controversy and the criticism candidate Bill Clinton very critical of the family and family values in 1992 very critical of my speech today. 1996 Bill Clinton gives that speech. And you know what I don't get any royalties at all. He can go ahead. He can give my speech he can give Bob Smith a speech he can give Charlie Bass a speech he can give John Sununu speech whatever good Republican speech he wants to give and he can sound and he can talk like us but he ain't one of us because we know that if he's re-elected the government is going to expand. Taxes are going to go up. The status quo quo and the self-anointed in Washington will prevail. And there are some very powerful forces that want to keep things as they are. We're the ones that want to see some change. We want to see a bright future for our children. And the only way that our children are going to have a bright future is

if we have good political leaders like Charlie Bass and Bob Smith. So my friends we're going to make it happen here in New Hampshire. And we're also going to elect Bob Dole was present and this San Diego convention is going to be very important because at that convention we are going to outline the agenda and I'll tell you what the agenda is not going to be much different than what I just talked about. That's the Republican agenda. That's the Republican message. And we're going to take it to the American people and we're going to say it over and over and over again so that they can understand and appreciate the differences between a Republican and a Democrat. The difference between Bob Dole and Bill Clinton. We're not going to have this status of ambiguity because when you have ambiguity guess what the incumbent normally wins. And we're going to have to have a bold message clear distinctions between what they stand for and what we stand for. And then the people will choose. So we will take our message from community to community from precinct to precinct from state to

state. And I know you'll do your homework and do the right thing here in New Hampshire. We'll do the right thing in Indiana and we'll join forces and when we wake up on November 6th the day after the election Charlie Bass will be going back to the Congress. Bob Smith of the Senate and yes Bob Dole to the White House thank you very much. Thanks for inviting me. Category 1 thank you very much. Really appreciate it. Thank you.