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 DOLEThe wind doesn’t bother me. I’m in the US Senate.
More Bob Dole Quotes
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The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That’s the easiest way to put it.
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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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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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This is not politics… it’s to protect the innocence of children.
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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.
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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.
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Stop telling the truth about my record!
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Elizabeth’s back at the Red Cross, and I’m walking the dog.
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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.
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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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We’ll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
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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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You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.
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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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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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