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{{quote|"In [[Ayn Rand]]'s wonderful book "[[Atlas Shrugged]]", the main question throughout the book is "Who is John Galt?" The question everyone now is asking is, "Who is Dan Quayle?"|Reporter in a newspaper article for the New Orleans ''Times Picayune''}}
Dan Quayle was the otherwise forgettable vice president of the first President Bush, [[George H. W. Bush|George Herbert Walker Bush]]. Originally a senator from Indiana, he became well known after George Bush named him as his running mate. Most famous for essentially being a non-entity catapulted into the spotlight, and for making several [[Malaproper]] and/or misinformed remarks; the most common caricature of him is essentially as politics' [[The Simpsons (animation)|Ralph Wiggum]].
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* He famously was judging a spelling bee and told a child who had gotten the answer correct that it was wrong, then proceeded to "correct" them to the wrong version. That this was a single incident in which Quayle was reading from an answer card prepared by a teacher was irrelevant - he quickly became forever known as the man who spelled it "potatoe".
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