Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Dole

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Last updated on November 25, 2024.

Robert Joseph Dole was an American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996. He was the Republican Leader of the Senate during the final 11 years of his tenure, including three non-consecutive years as Senate Majority Leader. Prior to his 27 years in the Senate, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969. Dole was also the Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 election and the vice presidential nominee in the 1976 election.

American - Politician | July 22, 1923 - December 5, 2021

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Elizabeth's back at the red cross, and I'm walking the dog.

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I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

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As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.

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You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.

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If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.

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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 just consider myself a Republican, none of this hyphenated stuff. I was a mainstream conservative Republican, and most people are in that category.

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I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people of the United States, and nowhere to go but the White House or home.

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We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

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At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.

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Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

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I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.

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Life is very important to Americans.

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Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.

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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 really thought, with my background growing up, and my service, and all that, I thought it would be enough for the presidency. But... It sure was enough when I ran for Congress.

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We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

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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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Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.

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The internet is a great way to get on the net.

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Think I'll win. Could be big.

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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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It's going to be hard for someone like me to run for president.

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You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.

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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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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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History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

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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. In it you could not read the ethnic particulars of the soldier who died next to you. He was an American. And when I think of how we learned this lesson, I wonder how we could have unlearned it.

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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 there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

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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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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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When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

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With all the divisive forces tearing at our country, we need the glue of language to help hold us together. If we want to ensure that all our children have the same opportunities in life, alternative language education should stop and English should be acknowledged once and for all as the official language of the United States.

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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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Barry Goldwater once said ruefully, and I know how he feels. "It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be President . . . except me."

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I have been uplifted by the extraordinary power of the American heart - by those armies of compassion, who are willing to cross town or cross the globe to minister to those they've never met and will never see again.

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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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The horizon is out there somewhere and you keep chasing it, looking for it and working for it.

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As president, I will fight illegal immigration in order to preserve an appropriate level of legal immigration. At the same time, I believe our system of legal immigration needs to be re-examined. As part of this re-examination, I support a modest, temporary reduction in the annual rate of legal immigration.

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The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.

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There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

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I think the voters believe that when you become president of the United States, you have a higher obligation and a higher standard than anybody in the world. And if you violate that standard, they're going to remember it on election day.

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All the wisdom doesn’t reside in one party.

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Having a disability changes your whole life, not just your attitude.

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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 lost in '96, in case the word hadn't trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.

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A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy

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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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This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

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What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.

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The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the US Senate.

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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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When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

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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. 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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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 think the Republican Party has indicated to everyone who wants to look at us that, you know, we're in the mainstream. We understand a lot of the concerns people have.

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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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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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