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

Bob Dole

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

Aggression Century Lessons
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.
BOB DOLE

Evil Party President
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
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
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

Child Coincidence Due Family Respect
When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.
BOB DOLE

Giving Government Political
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
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.
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Affair Country People
There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and…evil.
BOB DOLE

Evil Haer Politics
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
The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That’s the easiest way to put it.
BOB DOLE

Country Immigration Way
I don’t know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
BOB DOLE

People President Running
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
We’ll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
BOB DOLE

Desire Riding
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

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

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