Bob Dole Quotes

I've always suggested if you can't stand the sight of your own blood, don't run for office.

Personally, having, you know, lived and worked in the White House, having been a senator, having been Secretary of State, there has traditionally been a great pool of very talented, hard-working people.

Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.

I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

I don't want to become Washington.

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.

Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.

I can honestly say that being a United States Senator has been the honor of my life.

It does take courage to be in public life.

Men in political life must be ambitious.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say "In spite of all!" has the calling for politics.

Never let your face show how hard they are taking your ass.

I think Senator Marco Rubio was a very good speaker of the House, has been a very good senator.

The fact that Barack Hussein Obama became president is historic, to say the least. Actually, to become U.S. senator, that was historic, and then what he did later on - that's what inspired me to think about running for office.

I have no political aspiration.

I have a message for any young woman who is thinking about running for office and has ever attended a costume party… or done anything stupid on camera. Run for office. Fight for this country.

I have the utmost confidence in Sen. Sessions, now General Sessions.

Akhmad is strength!

I think I have what a New York City point guard is made of: toughness, a lot of heart, and the ability to be a leader.

When I was secretary of state, I went around the world advocating for America, but also advocating for women's rights, to make sure that women had a decent chance to have a better life and negotiated a treaty with Russia to lower nuclear weapons. Four hundred pieces of legislation have my name on it as a sponsor or cosponsor when I was a senator for eight years.

Marco Rubio doesn't go to the United States Senate. I must say, if I were a United States senator, I would be so honored to be in that magnificent chamber voting for the people of Florida.