I lost in ’96, in case the word hadn’t trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.
BOB DOLEI’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.
More Bob Dole Quotes
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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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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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The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.
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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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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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Stop telling the truth about my record!
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We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren’t good. Drinking’s not good. Some would say milk’s not good.
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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 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 horizon is out there somewhere and you keep chasing it, looking for it and working for it.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve never known a lot of rich people. It’s not my bag.
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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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Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.
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Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.
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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 wind doesn’t bother me. I’m in the US Senate.
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Life is very important to Americans.
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There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and…evil.
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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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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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You have won the Cold War. … [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. …
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It’s a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose…
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