The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.
BOB DOLEYou have won the Cold War. … [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. …
More Bob Dole Quotes
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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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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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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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If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.
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I think it’s OK to talk about your military service, but there’s a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right.
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Think I’ll win. Could be big.
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I’ve never known a lot of rich people. It’s not my bag.
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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 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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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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All you need to know is this. You can never go wrong by voting for a bill that fails, or against a bill that passes.
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This is not a coincidence. This is not a coincidence. And with all due respect, I am here to tell you it does not take a village to raise a child. It takes a family to raise a child.
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The wind doesn’t bother me. I’m in the US Senate.
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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 don’t know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
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I mean, there’s always somebody in somebody’s administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him. I don’t know if that’s good. It may be good business; it’s not good politics.
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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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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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Elizabeth’s back at the Red Cross, and I’m walking the dog.
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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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I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn’t have any.
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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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It’s a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose…
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Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
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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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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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