Bob dole quotes

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

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.

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

If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates.

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.

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

The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night.

In what might be a motto of those who sought the presidency and lost, Ted Kennedy once said, "Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."

Think I'll win. Could be big.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.

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

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, I remarked that "tomorrow will be the first time in my life I don't have anything to do." I was wrong. Seventy-two hours after conceding the election, I was swapping wisecracks with David Letterman on his late-night show.

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.

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.

Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.

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.

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.

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."

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

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

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

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.

You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... 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.

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.

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.

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.

Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.

Life is very important to Americans.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

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.

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

Elizabeth's back at the Red Cross, and I'm walking the dog.

We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives.

All the wisdom doesn’t reside in one party.

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.

You read what Disraeli had to say. I don't remember what he said. He said something. He's no longer with us.

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."

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

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

It's a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose...

I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.

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.

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

Stop telling the truth about my record!

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.'

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

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

The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.

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.

This is what America's all about, nobody's being hurt they have a right to express themselves, I watched all the television I could on Miami-Dade and I didn't see anybody being shoved around.

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

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.

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

I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.

When I was quite young, I put my trust in God--not government; and I never get the two confused.

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.

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

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

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.

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.