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When I was quite young, I put my trust in God--not government and I never get the two confused.

Bob Dole

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Bob Dole
Age: 101
Born: 1923
Born: July 22
American Politician
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Robert J. Dole
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Robert Joseph Dole
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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 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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The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.
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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 don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
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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 know there are California oranges and Florida oranges. When I'm in Florida, I like Florida oranges. Today, I think California oranges are the best, of course.
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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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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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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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Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.
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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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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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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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Life is very important to Americans.
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All the wisdom doesn’t reside in one party.
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