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1923–2021 United States
Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole (July 22, 1923 - December 5, 2021) was best known as a former Republican United States Senate Majority Leader and Senator from Kansas from 1969 to 1996. He was the Republican presidential nominee in 1996, but was defeated by incumbent Bill Clinton in the election.
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Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.
At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.
I once called Carter a chicken fried McGovern and I take that back because I've come to respect McGovern.
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.
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.
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.
I don't know if that's good.
If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates.
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.
I, Robert Joseph Dole, do solemnly swear... Sorry. Wrong speech.
He lost the election, and I regret that he did, but they did. He had Rudy Giuliani running all over the country, claiming fraud. He never had one bit of fraud in all those lawsuits he filed and statements he made.
In Susan Page, "At 98 and facing cancer, Bob Dole reckons with legacy of Trump and ponders future of GOP", USA Today (July 22, 2021).
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