Having a disability changes your whole life, not just your attitude.
BOB DOLEYou have won the Cold War. … [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. …
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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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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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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.
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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 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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Life is very important to Americans.
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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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The wind doesn’t bother me. I’m in the US Senate.
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When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.
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Stop telling the truth about my record!
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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.
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I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn’t have any.
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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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When I was quite young, I put my trust in God–not government; and I never get the two confused.
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I don’t know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
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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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We’ll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
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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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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’ve never known a lot of rich people. It’s not my bag.
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You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.
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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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I think it’s OK to talk about your military service, but there’s a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right.
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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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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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