Top 100 Quotes About Dole
#1. 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
#2. Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
Al Franken
#3. The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the US Senate.
Bob Dole
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Even though I am Chairman of Dole Food Company, I do most of my own grocery shopping.
David H. Murdock
#8. 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
#9. Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?
Mickey Kaus
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.
Christie Brinkley
#14. Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.
Bob Dole
#15. There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and ... evil.
Bob Dole
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.
Bob Dole
#22. 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
#23. If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.
Bob Dole
#24. When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.
Bob Dole
#25. You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.
Bob Dole
#26. 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
#27. You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.
Bob Dole
#28. 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
#29. The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night.
Bob Dole
#30. 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
#33. First Step To Lose Weight.....Get and Stay ACTIVE!
Josheel Dole
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. The United States is the leader of the free world.
Elizabeth Dole
#38. 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
#39. Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!
Bob Dole
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.
Kay Hagan
#45. I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.
Bob Dole
#46. Altogether, a pleasant place, marred by activities of unpleasant people whose qualities, perhaps, are sad reflections of sadder environments.
Walter Greenwood
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. He always felt better when he could dole out pain alone.
William Goldman
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Stop telling the truth about my record!
Bob Dole
#53. I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.
Bob Dole
#54. Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.
Eleanor Mondale
#55. 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
#56. It's a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose.
Bob Dole
#57. 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
#58. The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.
Bob Dole
#59. 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
#60. In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.
Elizabeth Dole
#61. 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
#62. To be impacted. Then, once a policy is determined, you call on them to help ...
Elizabeth Dole
#63. 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
#64. My mum was a single mum on the dole.
Jake Bugg
#65. Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out.
John Podhoretz
#66. Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.
Charles Fletcher Dole
#68. I have been uplifted by the extraordinary power of the American heart - by those armies of compassion, who are willing to cross town or cross the globe to minister to those they've never met and will never see again.
Bob Dole
#69. 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
#70. Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
Bob Dole
#71. When I was quite young, I put my trust in God
not government; and I never get the two confused.
Bob Dole
#72. Life is very important to Americans.
Bob Dole
#73. 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
#74. If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#75. 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
#76. I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.
Deborah Smith
#77. 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.'
Bob Dole
#78. 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
#79. Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.
Bob Dole
#80. 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
#81. 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.
Bob Dole
#82. Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.
Elizabeth Dole
#83. Think I'll win. Could be big.
Bob Dole
#84. 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
#85. 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.
Bob Dole
#86. 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
#87. People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.
Mickey Kaus
#88. Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.
William Shakespeare
#89. This is not politics ... it's to protect the innocence of children.
Bob Dole
#90. Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.
Elizabeth Dole
#91. To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.
Charles Koch
#92. I'd like us to remember the suffering of those Americans who were injured serving this country before we dole out millions to slackers and moochers.
Chris Kyle
#93. Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member.
Gloria Steinem
#94. The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is being sloppy. They are taking everything Bob Dole has ever said we ought to do regarding taxes and adding all of those things up and saying it will cost $800 billion.
Bob Dole
#95. I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.
Bob Dole
#96. All the wisdom doesn't reside in one party.
Bob Dole
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq.
Elizabeth Dole
#100. Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.
Bob Dole
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