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Bob Dole

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

Country Immigration Way
You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.
BOB DOLE

Good Littles Morning Noon
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
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
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
Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.
BOB DOLE

Being Better Get Optimistic
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.
BOB DOLE

Bob Children Thinking
This is what America’s all about, nobody’s being hurt they have a right to express themselves, I watched all the television I could on Miami-Dade and I didn’t see anybody being shoved around.
BOB DOLE

Country Hurt People Television
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.
BOB DOLE

Clever House White
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
I lost in ’96, in case the word hadn’t trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.
BOB DOLE

Cases Lost Made
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.
BOB DOLE

Done Helping Trying
When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.
BOB DOLE

Giving Government Political
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
BOB DOLE

Confusion Moral Names
Elizabeth’s back at the Red Cross, and I’m walking the dog.
BOB DOLE

Crosses Dog Red
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,
BOB DOLE

Country Experiment Hurt Night Person Self Syre
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
I’ve never known a lot of rich people. It’s not my bag.
BOB DOLE

Bags People Rich
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.
BOB DOLE

Data Identity Immigration Verification
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

Needs President Wish
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.
BOB DOLE

Immigration Legal Modest Support Time
There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and…evil.
BOB DOLE

Evil Haer Politics
Life is very important to Americans.
BOB DOLE

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

Aggression Century Lessons
You read what Disraeli had to say. I don’t remember what he said. He said something. He’s no longer with us.
BOB DOLE

Disraeli Remember Said
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

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