Dan Quayle, vice president under George H.W. Bush, also flashed this hand gesture that is supposedly a symbol of the University of Texas.
Quayle, never went to school anywhere near Texas. If you listen to Dan you might wonder if he ever went to school at all:
Qualyle on Machiavelli's "The Prince" - "You always learn something by reading the classics. Particularly The Prince. I go through and look at this from this intellectual point of view.
"Machiavelli had these three classes of mind. The first class was the person that was creative enough to be leader and be able to lead a great nation without much help. The second class of mind was one that wasn't creative but could take ideas, put people around him, and be able to lead nations forward.
"And the third class of people didn't really know much of anything. And they were the worst kind of leaders, because not only were they not creative, but they didn't know what was right or wrong, and they just sort of went by whatever they felt like.
"I've tried to figure out where I am. I know I'm not the first because I don't think I have the creativeness that Machiavelli talks about. If I go back and reread it I might figure it out exactly where I put myself. I'm somewhere between two and one."
- Senator Dan Quayle gives his opinion of the book "The Prince" Sept. 28, 1988 (as reported in Esquire, 8/92)
