Bob Dole Quotes
I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
Dole, Bob. Great Presidential Wit: I Wish I Was in the Book. Scribner, 2001, p. 12.
Describing Republican Senator Robert M. La Follette, 1924 Progressive party candidate for President:
He saw Obama’s name as a fatal problem with the American Electorate which turned out to be more tolerant than Brown gave them credit for.
This is one of the great erroneous predictions of American political history. He was not nominated on the second ballot. Nor on the third; Lincoln was
During the last days of the 1912 "Bull Moose" campaign, President Taft's running mate, Taft’s Vice President James S. Sherman, died just before election day. Nicholas Butler was asked to take his place on the Republican ballot; he agreed with this famous condition. The election was won by Democrat Woodrow Wilson and Butler was off the hook.
Robert Joseph Dole is an American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in the U.S. Senate from 1969 to 1996. He was the Republican Leader of the United States Senate during the final 11 years of his tenure, including three nonconsecutive years as Senate Majority Leader. Prior to his 27 years in the Senate, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969. Dole was also the Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 election and the vice presidential nominee in the 1976 election.
