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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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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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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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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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This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.
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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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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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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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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 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.
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Stop telling the truth about my record!
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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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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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When I was quite young, I put my trust in God--not government and I never get the two confused.
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Life is very important to Americans.
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We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
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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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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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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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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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