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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.

Bob Dole

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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Country Experiment Hurt Night Person Self Syre
I lost in ’96, in case the word hadn’t trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.
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Cases Lost Made
The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.
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Commitment Hard Impossible Possible Work
Elizabeth’s back at the Red Cross, and I’m walking the dog.
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Crosses Dog Red
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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Drinking Kids Smoking
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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Dream Jobs Night
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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Lines Military Thinking
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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Confusion Moral Names
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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Problem Responsibility Writing
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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Thank Thankful Thinking You
We’ll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
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Desire Riding
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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Atheist Constitution Currency
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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Done Helping Trying
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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Age Appreciate Finding Yourself
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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Immigration Legal Modest Support Time
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.
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Tradition Virtue Vision

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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