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.
BOB DOLEI’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.
More Bob Dole Quotes
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When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.
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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 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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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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It’s a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose…
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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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Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.
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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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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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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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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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If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.
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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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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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There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and…evil.
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