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I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people, and nowhere to go but the White House or home.

Bob Dole

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Bob Dole
Age: 101
Born: 1923
Born: July 22
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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 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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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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Think I'll win. Could be big.
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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.
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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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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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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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When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.
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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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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'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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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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I lost in '96, in case the word hadn't trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.
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We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
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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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We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives.
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Life is very important to Americans.
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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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It's a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose...
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