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 DOLENo 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.
More Bob Dole Quotes
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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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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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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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The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That’s the easiest way to put it.
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I’m not a Gingrich fan. He’s just difficult to work with. It’s either Newt’s way or the highway.
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There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and…evil.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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