Bob Dole Quotes

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

All the wisdom doesn't reside in one party.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Think I'll win. Could be big.

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.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

Life is very important to Americans.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The State is now more involved than it has ever been in the raising of children, and children are now more neglected, abused, and mistreated than they have been in our time. 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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."

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

A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants of the founding fathers ... 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.

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

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.