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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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Bob Dole
Age: 101
Born: 1923
Born: July 22
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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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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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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.
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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.
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You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.
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