Bob Dole Quotes
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Having a disability changes your whole life, not just your attitude.
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Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.
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You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.
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If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.
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Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.
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The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.
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The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night.
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I know there are California oranges and Florida oranges. When I'm in Florida, I like Florida oranges. Today, I think California oranges are the best, of course.
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As president, I will fight illegal immigration in order to preserve an appropriate level of legal immigration. At the same time, I believe our system of legal immigration needs to be re-examined. As part of this re-examination, I support a modest, temporary reduction in the annual rate of legal immigration.
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President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.
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We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
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Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.
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No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.
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When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.
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Life is very important to Americans.
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It's going to be hard for someone like me to run for president.
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The state is now more involved than it ever has been in the raising of children. And children are now more neglected, more abused and more mistreated than they have been in our time. This is not a coincidence. This is not a coincidence. And with all due respect, I am here to tell you it does not take a village to raise a child. It takes a family to raise a child.
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In what might be a motto of those who sought the presidency and lost, Ted Kennedy once said, "Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."
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Barry Goldwater once said ruefully, and I know how he feels. "It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be President . . . except me."
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When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.
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I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him. I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics.
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I think the Republican Party has indicated to everyone who wants to look at us that, you know, we're in the mainstream. We understand a lot of the concerns people have.
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Yet when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood. In it you could not read the ethnic particulars of the soldier who died next to you. He was an American. And when I think of how we learned this lesson, I wonder how we could have unlearned it.
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I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.
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There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.
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If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
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Elizabeth's back at the Red Cross, and I'm walking the dog.
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The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the US Senate.
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The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.
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At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.
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