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.
BOB DOLEIf Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
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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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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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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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The horizon is out there somewhere and you keep chasing it, looking for it and working for it.
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It’s a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose…
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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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Stop telling the truth about my record!
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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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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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I don’t know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
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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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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 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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If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.
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If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
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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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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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The wind doesn’t bother me. I’m in the US Senate.
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The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.
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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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Think I’ll win. Could be big.
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We’ll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
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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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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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We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith… Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives.
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Having a disability changes your whole life, not just your attitude.
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