
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, January 22, 1995                   TAG: 9501240058
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: INDIANAPOLIS                                 LENGTH: Short

QUAYLE TELLS AMWAY GROUP HE'S `SCANNED, RESTED, READY'

In a thematic outline for his coming White House run, Dan Quayle delivered a stinging rebuke of President Clinton's military and foreign policies Saturday and said the country needed an honest debate about cultural values and entitlement reform.

``I stand before you tonight scanned, rested and ready,'' Quayle said in an evening speech in Indianapolis, making light of his two recent hospital stays, the first for blood clots and the second, just two weeks ago, to have his appendix removed. ``Tonight, I am back in the arena with you and that is where I intend to stay.''

Prior to the speech, Quayle's office issued a statement saying he will file candidacy papers by Feb. 21 and make a public announcement of his candidacy by mid-April.

In his remarks, to an enthusiastic crowd of more than 30,000 people at an Amway convention, Quayle vowed to plunge back into the values debate that brought him controversy during his service in the Bush administration.

He cast himself as a member of the one-time ``silent majority'' of hard-working, God-fearing churchgoers who now were becoming an ``unsilent majority'' because of their shock at the decay of the American family and a social-welfare system that demanded no personal responsibility.

``We will continue to fight for our families, fight for freedom, fight for what we believe in,'' Quayle said to rousing applause.

Keywords:
POLITICS

by CNB