Political Quotes

“the political world was stunned a few weeks ago when our colleague, Majority Leader Bob Dole, announced his resignation from the U.S. Senate after 36 years of representing his native State of Kansas. In his emotional and moving farewell speech, he said he wanted to campaign for the Presidency ``with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people and nowhere to go but the White House or home.'' Senator Dole was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1960. He came to the Senate in 1968, where he served as the Republican leader for a record 11 years. He ran for Vice President with President Gerald Ford in 1976 and ran for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1980 and 1988. He has been a fixture of our National Government for 36 years. Regardless of what we might think of his decision to give up his life's work for an attempt at the White House, we all agree that Bob Dole has been an outstanding Senator and leader. He is a master legislator.”