I’ve thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress – the Democrats and Republicans – would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they’d be willing to try.
BOB DOLEOne of my most often repeated quips was the one I made when former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon stood by each other at a White House event. ‘There they are,’ I said. ‘See no evil, hear no evil, and . . . evil.’
More Bob Dole Quotes
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I’m not a Gingrich fan. He’s just difficult to work with. It’s either Newt’s way or the highway.
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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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I’ve never known a lot of rich people. It’s not my bag.
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I had a dream that I would be here this week, receiving something from the president, but I thought it would be the front door key.
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We’ll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
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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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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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The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.
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I don’t know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
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The wind doesn’t bother me. I’m in the US Senate.
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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.
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When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.
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It’s a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose…
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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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