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,
BOB DOLEThe wind doesn’t bother me. I’m in the US Senate.
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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Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.
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You read what Disraeli had to say. I don’t remember what he said. He said something. He’s no longer with us.
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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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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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There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and…evil.
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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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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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I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn’t have any.
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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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We’ll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
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One 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.’
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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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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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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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