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.
BOB DOLEI used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn’t have any.
More Bob Dole Quotes
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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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Stop telling the truth about my record!
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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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I know there are California oranges and Florida oranges. When I’m in Florida, I like Florida oranges. Today, I think California oranges are the best, of course.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
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There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and…evil.
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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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If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.
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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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