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.
BOB DOLEI lost in ’96, in case the word hadn’t trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.
More Bob Dole Quotes
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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.
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I don’t know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
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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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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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If you’re hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You’ll get the same kind of feeling and you won’t have to pay.
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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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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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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.”
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This is not politics… it’s to protect the innocence of children.
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There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and…evil.
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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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If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.
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Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.
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We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith… Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives.
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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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