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 DOLEAt my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.
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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If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.
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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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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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I’ve never known a lot of rich people. It’s not my bag.
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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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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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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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Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
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You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.
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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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There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and…evil.
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Merely presenting a driver’s license or other document based on a birth certificate is not enough for an accurate verification. Biometric verification of identity must be made and then a data base of those persons who have legal status must be checked.
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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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I lost in ’96, in case the word hadn’t trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.
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