Top 100 Dole's Quotes
#1. In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.
Jack Kemp
#2. On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years from now Bob Dole's new tax plan will rate a footnote in the history books and this may have a whole chapter in itself.
Richard E. Berendzen
#3. I've been racking my brain. I've been trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane ... I told the doctor, I said, 'Look, I'm worried about the next election.' ... A misunderstanding.
Rush Limbaugh
#4. This is not politics ... it's to protect the innocence of children.
Bob Dole
#5. The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place
Bob Dole
#6. People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.
Mickey Kaus
#7. 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.
Bob Dole
#8. We're told compassion comes not from generosity but from compliance. We're told kindness means raiding a man's hard-earned wages and sending them off to Washington so they - not you - may dole them out in courtesies and indulgences.
Allen West
#9. As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.
Dick Morris
#10. 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.
Bob Dole
#11. It all goes so fast, she thought. We dole out our lives in dinner parties and plane flights, and it's over before we know it. We lose everyone we love, if they don't lose us first, and every single thing we do is intended to distract us from that reality.
Armistead Maupin
#12. We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.
Bob Dole
#13. My mum was a single mum on the dole.
Jake Bugg
#14. All you need to know is this. You can never go wrong by voting for a bill that fails, or against a bill that passes.
Bob Dole
#15. To be impacted. Then, once a policy is determined, you call on them to help ...
Elizabeth Dole
#16. Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadn't done anything wrong.
Paula Stokes
#17. In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.
Elizabeth Dole
#18. I believe I am more conservative than Bob Dole; I believe I am more committed to fundamentally changing American government than Bob Dole.
Phil Gramm
#19. The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.
Bob Dole
#20. Horses are like people - they have different personalities. They can be nice, friendly and hard-working, or awkward, difficult and lazy. If horses were people, some would be on the dole, and others would be entrepreneurs.
Tony McCoy
#21. It's a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose.
Bob Dole
#22. There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.
Elizabeth Dole
#23. Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.
Eleanor Mondale
#24. I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.
Bob Dole
#25. Stop telling the truth about my record!
Bob Dole
#26. 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.
Elizabeth Dole
#27. If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.
Mickey Kaus
#28. The House okayed the gasoline tax cut, which will increase the deficit, line the pockets of the oil companies, and hurt the environment; Dole said that if there was just some way this could interfere with people's sex lives, it would be perfect legislation.
Bill Maher
#29. What empowerment is all about [is] finding something which infuses you with a sense of mission, with a passion for your life's work. I don't believe there is one path for women or one nature to fulfill. Real fulfillment, real empowerment is often different than we imagine and better than we plan.
Elizabeth Dole
#30. It's weird, man. I've had a weird life, and I don't want to end up on the dole. I'm fed up with the plumbing. And I think it would be good to be a little pop star again.
Brian Harvey
#31. American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it's been a long steady decline from the gold standard and competitive banking to our Fed-run system of inflated paper currency, deposit insurance, and perpetually shaky banks on the dole.
Llewellyn Rockwell
#32. Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
Wendy Davis
#33. At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.
Bob Dole
#34. 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.
Bob Dole
#35. Whatever I did, even backed by Sting's cash and moral support, it turned to shit. I had reached the end of the line. I became a statistic. Jim Berryman, actor, comedian, bookie and lounge-lizard, was on the dole!
James Berryman
#36. When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?
Elizabeth Dole
#37. When we left school, it was the early eighties. This country was on its knees. There were no jobs, none. If you couldn't go into Daddy's business, you emigrated or went on the dole. Even if you had the money and the points for college - and we didn't - that just put it off for a few years.
Tana French
#38. It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.
Charles Fletcher Dole
#39. He's [G.H.W. Bush] never had to do a day's work in his life.
Bob Dole
#40. To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.
Charles Koch
#41. When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.
Bob Dole
#42. It's going to be hard for someone like me to run for president.
Bob Dole
#43. 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.
Bob Dole
#44. Good job not getting blown up." Men, in Tabitha's opinion, always seemed to need praise. Accordingly, she made an effort to dole it out. "Thank you," Stephen said drily. "I wasn't sure the mission was a success until just now." "I
Natalie Grey
#45. I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.
Bob Dole
#46. What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.
Bob Dole
#47. The Democrats are all over this. Democratic strategists feel John Kerry's war record means he can beat Bush. They say when it comes down to it voters will always vote for a war hero over someone who tried to get out of the war. I'll be sure to mention that to Bob Dole when I see him.
Jay Leno
#48. Elizabeth's back at the red cross, and I'm walking the dog.
Bob Dole
#49. It's just about bein' yourself ... even when you're on the dole, it's about your leather jacket. Music is the last refuge of the working class, along with football ... in fact, gigs and riots are the only things left.
Pete Doherty
#50. I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.
Ana Gasteyer
#51. I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.
Bob Dole
#52. I used myself, let nothing use me.
Like being on a private dole,
sometimes more like cutting bricks in Egypt.
What life there was, was mine,
now and again to lay
one hand on a warm brick
and touch the sun's ghost
with economical joy.
Adrienne Rich
#53. When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.
Bob Dole
#54. If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.
Bob Dole
#55. Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars
Darren Hayes
#56. Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.
Bob Dole
#57. I really thought, with my background growing up, and my service, and all that, I thought it would be enough for the presidency. But ... It sure was enough when I ran for Congress.
Bob Dole
#58. I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long as I was taking a full course load, then he would pay. And the times that I wasn't taking a full course load, then I was off the dole and I was working.
John Mackey
#59. If you admit your fear to yourself and to him, then maybe this time you can face it instead of running away.' Even as he spoke the words to her, they hit him in the gut. He could dole out advice. But he wasn't great at following it. He'd been running away from his past for ten years.
Jody Hedlund
#60. 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.
Bob Dole
#61. In seeking success you must also seek fulfillment. Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be.
Elizabeth Dole
#62. There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and ... evil.
Bob Dole
#63. Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.
Bob Dole
#64. Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.
Christie Brinkley
#65. You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.
Bob Dole
#66. Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics it was either that or back to the dole queue on Monday. Sorry I missed the Wednesday lunch date, but I was in a black hole all morning.
Douglas Adams
#68. Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?
Mickey Kaus
#69. 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.
Bob Dole
#70. Even though I am Chairman of Dole Food Company, I do most of my own grocery shopping.
David H. Murdock
#71. If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
Brendan Francis
#72. In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.
James Wolcott
#73. The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U.S. population.
Dick Morris
#74. The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the US Senate.
Bob Dole
#75. Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
Al Franken
#76. 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.
Bob Dole
#77. The United States is the leader of the free world.
Elizabeth Dole
#78. The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.
Wilfred Owen
#79. If Joanie dies before me, I wonder if I'll ever be with another woman. I can't imagine going through all of the preliminary stuff - the talk, the chatter, the dinners. I'd have to take someone places, explain my history, make jokes, dole out compliments, hold back farts.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#80. Altogether, a pleasant place, marred by activities of unpleasant people whose qualities, perhaps, are sad reflections of sadder environments.
Walter Greenwood
#81. I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.
Bob Dole
#82. People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.
Kay Hagan
#83. 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.
Bob Dole
#84. The problem with Happily Ever After is that when you live far beyond the terms of most Ever After's there is just too much time for it to go wrong.
R.G. Dole
#85. 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.
Bob Dole
#86. There were four million people in the American Colonies and we had Jefferson and Franklin. Now we have over 200 million and the two top guys are Clinton and Dole. What can you draw from this? Darwin was wrong!
Mort Sahl
#87. Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!
Bob Dole
#88. I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
Alex Kapranos
#89. He always felt better when he could dole out pain alone.
William Goldman
#90. 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.
Bob Dole
#91. You read what Disraeli had to say. I don't remember what he said. He said something. He's no longer with us.
Bob Dole
#92. Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget.
Kevin McCarthy
#93. First Step To Lose Weight.....Get and Stay ACTIVE!
Josheel Dole
#96. There's a lot of good rappers in England at the moment. There's a lot of good dance acts. A lot of good, young guitar acts. I think a lot of groups came from that dole culture of the late 80's/early 90's - it's not as easy now. I think there's a dearth of working class bands.
Ian Brown
#97. The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night.
Bob Dole
#98. Bob Dole is going to be appearing in a Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears. Yeah, apparently Dole says that if this doesn't cure his erectile dysfunction, nothing will.
Conan O'Brien
#99. You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.
Bob Dole
#100. 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.
Bob Dole
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
