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I 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.

Bob Dole

I had a dream that I would be here this week, receiving something from the president, but I thought it would be the front door key.
BOB DOLE

Doors Dream Keys
I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn’t have any.
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Terrible Thinking Used
Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.
BOB DOLE

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

Average Giving Political
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
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
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
Think I’ll win. Could be big.
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Political Thinking Winning
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.
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Evil Party President
If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.
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Aggression Century Lessons
Having a disability changes your whole life, not just your attitude.
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Attitude Disability Life Whole
If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.
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Added Country Democrat War
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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Jobs Underappreciated Wall War
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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Difficult Fans Highway Newts Way
Life is very important to Americans.
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Dumb Funny Stupid
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
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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Cutting Hands Men
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.
BOB DOLE

Government Need Voting
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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Fall Home White
We’ll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
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Desire Riding
You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.
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Good Littles Morning Noon
It’s a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose…
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Fun Hurt Winning
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
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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Country Decided Looked Say
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
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

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