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Bob Dole

Geburtstag: 22. Juli 1923

Robert Joseph „Bob“ Dole ist ein US-amerikanischer Politiker und ehemaliger Senator. Er war 1996 Präsidentschaftskandidat der Republikanischen Partei, wobei er Amtsinhaber Bill Clinton unterlag. Wikipedia

Photo: President's Commission on Care for American's Returning Wounded Warriors (PCCWW), https://web.archive.org/web/20070807220635/http://www.pccww.gov/images/Dole-BobColor.JPG / Public domain

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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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— Bob Dole

Reported in Tom Crisp, The Book of Bob: Choice Words, Memorable Men (2007), p. 134.

„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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— Bob Dole

Quelle: Cabinet members defend Bush from O'Neill http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/11/oneill.bush/, CNN (January 12, 2004).

„If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.“

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— Bob Dole

Reported in New York Magazine‎ (April 29, 1996), v. 29, no. 17, p. 13.

„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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— Bob Dole

Reported in Tom Crisp, The Book of Bob: Choice Words, Memorable Men (2007), p. 126

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

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Attributed to Bob Dole by Charlie Cook, "The Democrats' Wild Ride," Cook Political Report, (June 12, 2010)

„I once called Carter a chicken fried McGovern and I take that back because I've come to respect McGovern.“

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— Bob Dole

At the Republican debate in Iowa in 1980
Quelle: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304194527/http://newsok.com/memorable-barbs-may-incite-laughter/article/2878749 Memorable barbs may incite laughter

„At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.“

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About his wife, Elizabeth Dole, reported in William B. Whitman, The Quotable Politician‎ (2003), p. 125.

„I, Robert Joseph Dole, do solemnly swear… Sorry. Wrong speech.“

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Remarks by the President and Senator Robert Dole at Presentation of Medal of Freedom to Senator Dole http://clinton6.nara.gov/1997/01/1997-01-17-president-in-dole-medal-of-freedom-presentation.html (January 17, 1997).

„Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.“

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— Bob Dole

Reported in Tom Crisp, The Book of Bob: Choice Words, Memorable Men (2007), p. 113.

„I don't like to second-guess, but I do believe we've lost something. I can't get my hand on it, but we're just not quite where we should be, as the greatest democracy in the world. And I don't know how you correct it, but I keep hoping that there will be a change in my lifetime.“

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— Bob Dole

Quelle: In Susan Page, " At 98 and facing cancer, Bob Dole reckons with legacy of Trump and ponders future of GOP https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/22/98-bob-dole-reckons-legacy-trump-ponders-future-gop/7995412002/", USA Today (July 22, 2021).