'You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker repeats a phrase to affirm the audience's mood.
- In plain terms
- You look happy and will stay happy.
- What can you take from it?
- Use repetition to affirm a mood.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you know others are happy?
- What happens if they aren't?
Another view
It assumes everyone feels the same way.
More from Dan Quayle
'My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will never surrender to what is right.'
Permalink to quote #19 'The question is: Are we going to go forward to tomorrow, or past to the back?'
Permalink to quote #21 'Potato. P-O-T-A-T-O-E.'
Permalink to quote #18
Related quotes
If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.
Groucho MarxGroucho Marx quote #82 'Welcome everyone to Monday Night RAW!'
Vince McMahonVince McMahon quote #1 I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.
Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri Shostakovich quote #1