President Ronald Reagan on his 1980 opponent: “I had a dream the other night. I dreamed that Jimmy Carter came to me and asked why I wanted his job. I told him I didn’t want his job. I want to be President.”
BOB DOLEI will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people, and nowhere to go but the White House or home.
More Bob Dole Quotes
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I lost in ’96, in case the word hadn’t trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.
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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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This is not politics… it’s to protect the innocence of children.
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The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is being sloppy. They are taking everything Bob Dole has ever said we ought to do regarding taxes and adding all of those things up and saying it will cost $800 billion.
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There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and…evil.
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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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Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.
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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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This is what America’s all about, nobody’s being hurt they have a right to express themselves, I watched all the television I could on Miami-Dade and I didn’t see anybody being shoved around.
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If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.
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Sure, losing an election hurts, but I’ve experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is self-defeating. In conceding the 1996 election,
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Having been in Congress, you know that’s part of our responsibility the constituent has a problem, We’re supposed to write back and say, ‘Well I can’t do anything’ That’s not what they elect you for.
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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. …
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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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I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people, and nowhere to go but the White House or home.
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