I know it’s not fashionable to talk about moral values, but we need to do it. Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, and the national newspapers routinely jeer at them, I think most of us in this room know that some things are good and other things are wrong. And now, it’s time to make the discussion public.
It’s time to talk again about the family, hard work, integrity, and personal responsibility. We cannot be embarrassed out of our belief that two parents married to each other are better in most cases for children than one. That honest work is better than handouts or crime. That we are our brothers’ keepers. That it’s worth making an effort, even when the rewards aren’t immediate. So, I think the time has come to renew our public commitment to our Judeo-Christian values in our churches and synagogues, our civic organizations, and our schools. We are, as our children recite each morning, one nation under God. That’s a useful framework for acknowledging a duty and an authority higher than our own pleasures and personal ambition.
If we live more thoroughly by these values, we would live in a better society. [applause] For the poor, renewing these values will give the people the strength to help themselves by acquiring the tools to achieve self-sufficiency, a good education, job training, and property. Then they will move from permanent dependence to dignified independence.
Dan Quayle was RIGHT!