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 DOLEThe wind doesn’t bother me. I’m in the US Senate.
More Bob Dole Quotes
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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’ve never known a lot of rich people. It’s not my bag.
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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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You read what Disraeli had to say. I don’t remember what he said. He said something. He’s no longer with us.
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We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren’t good. Drinking’s not good. Some would say milk’s not good.
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I don’t know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
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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.’
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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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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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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.
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Life is very important to Americans.
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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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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.
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Think I’ll win. Could be big.
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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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