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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.

Bob Dole

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.
BOB DOLE

Done Helping Trying
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.
BOB DOLE

Country Hurt People Television
The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That’s the easiest way to put it.
BOB DOLE

Country Immigration Way
You read what Disraeli had to say. I don’t remember what he said. He said something. He’s no longer with us.
BOB DOLE

Disraeli Remember Said
It’s a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose…
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Fun Hurt Winning
We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith… Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives.
BOB DOLE

Atheist Constitution Currency
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.
BOB DOLE

Tradition Virtue Vision
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.
BOB DOLE

Problem Responsibility Writing
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.’
BOB DOLE

Evil House White
I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn’t have any.
BOB DOLE

Terrible Thinking Used
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.
BOB DOLE

Affair Country People
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.
BOB DOLE

Administration Book Guy Hired Mean Somebody
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 DOLE

Age Appreciate Finding Yourself
I don’t know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
BOB DOLE

People President Running
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.
BOB DOLE

Doors Dream Keys
Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.
BOB DOLE

Average Giving Political
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.”
BOB DOLE

Dream Jobs Night
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.
BOB DOLE

Clever House White
Yet when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood.
BOB DOLE

Dream Father Morning
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.
BOB DOLE

Country Decided Looked Say
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.
BOB DOLE

Feelings Pay Zoos
Think I’ll win. Could be big.
BOB DOLE

Political Thinking Winning
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.
BOB DOLE

Child Children Raise State Village
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.
BOB DOLE

Fall Home White
The horizon is out there somewhere and you keep chasing it, looking for it and working for it.
BOB DOLE

Belief Believe Horizon
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.
BOB DOLE

Immigration Legal Modest Support Time
I’ve never known a lot of rich people. It’s not my bag.
BOB DOLE

Bags People Rich

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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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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