I don’t know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
BOB DOLEWhen I was quite young, I put my trust in God–not government; and I never get the two confused.
More Bob Dole Quotes
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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.
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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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This is not politics… it’s to protect the innocence of children.
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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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You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.
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It’s a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose…
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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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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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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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If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.
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I think one of life’s great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.
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The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place
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The horizon is out there somewhere and you keep chasing it, looking for it and working for 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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