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Bob Dole

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Bob Dole
Age: 101
Born: 1923
Born: July 22
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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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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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The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put 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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It's a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose...
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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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You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.
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When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.
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I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
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Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.
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All the wisdom doesn’t reside in one party.
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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 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.
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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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The horizon is out there somewhere and you keep chasing it, looking for it and working for it.
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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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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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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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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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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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