Bob Dole
Bob Dole
Robert Joseph "Bob" Doleis an American politician who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996 and in the House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969. In the 1976 presidential election, Dole was the Republican Party nominee for Vice President and incumbent President Gerald Ford's running mate. He ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 1980 and 1988. In 1996, Dole was able to secure the Republican nomination for President of the United States, but lost...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 July 1923
CityRussell, KS
The government will spend a total of ten trillion dollars between now and 2002, ... This is a bold and comprehensive economic growth program that will cut taxes on 90 million households, grow the economy and do so in the context of a balanced budget by 2002.
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.
A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people, ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy
When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.
As someone with a long record of government service,
there is scarcely anyone who believes that the required 67 senators would vote to convict the president on any of the four articles of impeachment approved by the House Judiciary Committee.
Those that have the most money will probably do quite well,
We got the across-the-board cut and the kiddy credit, and those are the two most important things to sell to voters, ... But there are a number other proposals in the economic plan that will appeal to businesses as well.
We are excited about the direction of this campaign,
We've got a lot of good people here who feel strongly about Governor Bush and about his winning,
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.
Neither the United States nor any other party can impose a solution,
Nobody's being hurt; they're expressing themselves, ... 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.
Since President Clinton took office, the number of 12- to 17-year-olds using marijuana has almost doubled,