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 DOLEI 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.
More Bob Dole Quotes
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I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn’t have any.
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I know there are California oranges and Florida oranges. When I’m in Florida, I like Florida oranges. Today, I think California oranges are the best, of course.
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Think I’ll win. Could be big.
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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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It’s a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose…
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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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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.
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I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people, and nowhere to go but the White House or home.
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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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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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You have won the Cold War. … [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. …
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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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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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The horizon is out there somewhere and you keep chasing it, looking for it and working for it.
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This is not politics… it’s to protect the innocence of children.
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