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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.

Bob Dole

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

Average Giving Political
If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.
BOB DOLE

Added Country Democrat War
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
It’s a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose…
BOB DOLE

Fun Hurt Winning
The wind doesn’t bother me. I’m in the US Senate.
BOB DOLE

Bother Senate Wind
Having a disability changes your whole life, not just your attitude.
BOB DOLE

Attitude Disability Life Whole
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
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
BOB DOLE

Cutting Hands Men
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
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
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
You have won the Cold War. … [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. …
BOB DOLE

Jobs Underappreciated Wall War
If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.
BOB DOLE

Aggression Century Lessons
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 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
I lost in ’96, in case the word hadn’t trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.
BOB DOLE

Cases Lost Made

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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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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