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

Bob Dole

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Bob Dole
Age: 101
Born: 1923
Born: July 22
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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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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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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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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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It's a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose...
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Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.
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We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
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All the wisdom doesn’t reside in one party.
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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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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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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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This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.
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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 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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I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
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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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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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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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You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.
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