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 DOLEThe wind doesn’t bother me. I’m in the US Senate.
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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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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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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The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That’s the easiest way to put it.
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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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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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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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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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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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I lost in ’96, in case the word hadn’t trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.
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The state is now more involved than it ever has been in the raising of children. And children are now more neglected, more abused and more mistreated than they have been in our time.
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It’s a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose…
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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.
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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 don’t know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
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