Quayle Says He May Run for President Another Day

Former Vice President Dan Quayle said Friday that he may seek the Republican presidential nomination another year and that consideration for his family was the sole reason he decided not to run now.

“The message of a Quayle campaign would have been putting the family first. Yesterday that was my decision. I chose . . . to put my family first,” he told a news conference at the Indianapolis airport.

He said the decision will make him a better person, a better father “and perhaps someday a better president.”

Asked if he was planning to seek the nomination down the road, he said “I’m 48 . . . God willing, I have a lot of years left. That certainly is a possibility.”

He attacked the news media for suggesting that the daunting task of raising millions of dollars to mount a campaign was really at the root of his decision.

He noted that he would have had to raise $500,000 a week over the next 12 months to be competitive and that a campaign would have on top of that put him and his family in a “crucible.”

Quayle and his wife, Marilyn, have two sons and a daughter.

“Could we have raised the money? Absolutely. Could we have won the campaign? I’m convinced we could have,” he said. “The decision that I made was a family decision.”

Quayle withdrew from the race Thursday in a move that surprised the political world.