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 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’ve never known a lot of rich people. It’s not my bag.
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Having a disability changes your whole life, not just your attitude.
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You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.
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Think I’ll win. Could be big.
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There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and…evil.
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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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Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.
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I think it’s OK to talk about your military service, but there’s a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right.
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I’m not a Gingrich fan. He’s just difficult to work with. It’s either Newt’s way or the highway.
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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,
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We’ll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
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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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I lost in ’96, in case the word hadn’t trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.
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Yet when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood.
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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.
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