Bob Dole Quotes - Page 3

The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

One of my most often repeated quips was the one I made when former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon stood by each other at a White House event. 'There they are,' I said. 'See no evil, hear no evil, and . . . evil.'

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is self-defeating. In conceding the 1996 election, I remarked that "tomorrow will be the first time in my life I don't have anything to do." I was wrong. Seventy-two hours after conceding the election, I was swapping wisecracks with David Letterman on his late-night show.

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.

It's going to be hard for someone like me to run for president.

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.

Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.

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.

You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night.

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.

Having been in Congress, you know that's part of our responsibility the constituent has a problem, We're supposed to write back and say, 'Well I can't do anything' That's not what they elect you for.

Stop telling the truth about my record!

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.

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.

In what might be a motto of those who sought the presidency and lost, Ted Kennedy once said, "Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."

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.

I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.

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.

If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates.