Bob Dole Quotes

When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it.

If you have ideology, you are less tolerant of the variant point of view.

I feel uneasy at the very idea of a Movement. I see every insight degenerating into a dogma, and fresh thoughts freezing into lifeless party line.

There’s too much orthodoxy in the political process today.

Many in my party [Republican Party] are more interested in finding heretics than they are in finding converts

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise.

I'm not a reactionary.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

At the end of the day, Americans are not so keen on ideologues, people who have such fixed positions that they can't see any virtue in the other side's point of view.

I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.

I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.

Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation.

…in every locality we should look beyond our noses; and at least say nothing on points where it is probable we shall disagree.

It is in the uncomprisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma that the danger lies.

All Fundamentalists are conservatives, but not all conservatives are Fundamentalists. The best conservatives can often give lessons to the liberals in true liberality of spirit, but the Fundamentalist program is essentially illiberal and intolerant.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines.

My side, I am a liberal more than a Democrat.

Logic, fact, morality, legality, ideology: All of it is irrelevant in understanding the Party of Trump. Republicans have made crystal clear that nothing matters to them other than partisanship.

Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

Because a lot of people really associate liberalism and Democrats with tolerance, and I found it to be quite the opposite. They're tolerant as long as you agree with them! I felt like not only was I tolerant, I was curious and open-minded.

To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a type of order in which, even on issues which to one are fundamental, others are allowed to pursue different ends. It is for this reason that to the liberal neither moral nor religious ideals are proper objects of coercion, while both conservatives and socialists recognize no such limits.

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

There are two ways to replace an orthodoxy: with openness or with another orthodoxy.

The way that one feels about the story line of 'Deterrence' can tell us, I believe, about each person's conservatism or liberalism and precisely how tolerant he or she is of racism.