Elizabeth Dole
Elizabeth Dole
Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole is an American politician who served in both the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush presidential administrations, as well as in the United States Senate...
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth29 July 1936
CitySalisbury, NC
people listening coworker
The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.
country thinking focus
It's absolutely the wrong signal, I think, to those who have entered this country legally or those who may be considering illegal immigration for a lot of benefits to be provided... Emergency medical needs should be met, but otherwise I think send the wrong signal to those who have come into the country legally and those who may be considering illegal immigration. So as you know, I've called for an increase in the border patrol agents. I've looked at that from both the standpoints of drugs and to prevent illegal immigration, but I think that's where the focus should be.
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I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.
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... All the people in this refugee camp want is to go back to their homes, and that can only happen when it's safe, ... Anything short of that is not going to be something that I would call success.
qualified
go for the most qualified people, but there's not going to be a litmus test.
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These folks have a passion for what they do, and they have the personal experience of having lost loved ones.
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Are you willing to send your own sons and daughters to bleed in Kosovo, ma'am?
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I think that the funding should be phased down. No question there should be very strong guidelines. There's supposed to be guidelines now. But certainly we need to enforce strong guidelines, and phase down that funding for the NEA.
haunt rest seen
seen a lot of things that will haunt me the rest of my life.
hearings rather unique
It's rather unique to have two confirmation hearings back to back here from the same family.
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That's hands-on management, executive management, whether it's a department of 100,000 at the Department of Transportation or whether it's a huge Corporation like the American Red Cross that I ran for eight years,
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Inadequate funding limits the number of staff at headquarters and in key states. It restricts your ability to communicate with voters. It places a ceiling on travel and travel staff. Over time, it becomes nearly impossible to sustain an effective campaign.
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Money isn't the only answer; sure, it's a factor, but experience counts a lot, ideas, vision, your views on the issues.
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Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.