Bob Dole Quotes

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

The counsel of many wise men is better than the counsel of one man alone.

Wisdom is not the province of only one party.

There are good people on both sides of almost every issue.

It's joyful in that there's another point of view on all things, you know, not just mine. That's why I like to write and collaborate with people. There's another point of view, and when those two things come together, and people work at it really hard, they get something that is the whole is more than the sum of - is that how you say that?

I have always grappled with the fact that the truth cannot be packaged into one soul or one mind alone. It is something fragmented: there is so much to it; the truth is varied and scattered across the world.

Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

I'm just saying that we need to find a better way to manifest the broader society's aspirations, politically. The key to it has to be some sort of proportional representation, which allows there to be more parties.

Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record - not in these tough times for America. In the Senate he has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party.

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

I do not agree or disagree in everything with either one party or the other. Because all seem to me to have some truth and some error, but everyone recognizes the other's error and nobody discerns his own.

The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas.

I expect the ruling and opposition parties to work together for the future of Taiwan.

The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy.

We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party.

The Democratic and Republican parties each operates as a necessary counterweight in a partnership designed to keep the pendulum of power swinging in perpetuity from the one set of colluding quislings to the other, and back.

The only thing dumber than a Democrat or a Republican is when those pricks work together. You see, in our two-party system, the Democrats are the party of no ideas and the Republicans are the party of bad ideas. It usually goes something like this. A Republican will stand up in Congress and say, 'I've got a really bad idea.' And a Democrat will immediately jump to his feet and declare, 'And I can make it sh*ttier.'

No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.

There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.

As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.

I think that to the extent that we focus on problems where we can build a moral and a political consensus, then I think that we move the country forward and when we are divided and our politics is focused on dividing, then I think we're less successful, not just from the perspective of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party but from the perspective of the nation as a whole.

When it comes to standing up for veterans, we cannot be the Republicans and Democrats, we have to be the red, white, and blue party.