Bob Dole
Bob Dole
Robert Joseph "Bob" Doleis an American politician who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996 and in the House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969. In the 1976 presidential election, Dole was the Republican Party nominee for Vice President and incumbent President Gerald Ford's running mate. He ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 1980 and 1988. In 1996, Dole was able to secure the Republican nomination for President of the United States, but lost...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 July 1923
CityRussell, KS
If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.
When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.
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."
There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.
You read what Disraeli had to say. I don't remember what he said. He said something. He's no longer with us.
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
Having a disability changes your whole life, not just your attitude.
A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants of the founding fathers. ... 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.
All the wisdom doesn’t reside in one party.
You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.
won every battle, except the battle against time.
It's a massive, massive, massive program. All Americans eligible for Medicare will qualify. I think it's a great day for America's seniors.
Now we meet in the birthplace of American liberty to renew our social contract. We look to Governor Bush and Secretary Cheney to raise our sights, and to restore honor and civility to our public life.
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.