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 DOLEThings are going to get better. Be optimistic.
More Bob Dole Quotes
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You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.
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When I was quite young, I put my trust in God–not government; and I never get the two confused.
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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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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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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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This is not politics… it’s to protect the innocence of children.
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The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.
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History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon – See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.
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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’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 don’t know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
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Having a disability changes your whole life, not just your attitude.
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The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place
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The wind doesn’t bother me. I’m in the US Senate.
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Life is very important to Americans.
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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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Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.
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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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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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Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.
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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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If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.
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I lost in ’96, in case the word hadn’t trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.
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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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Merely presenting a driver’s license or other document based on a birth certificate is not enough for an accurate verification. Biometric verification of identity must be made and then a data base of those persons who have legal status must be checked.
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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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