Political Quotes

“nothing I can say here today can add to the richness or the depth of the picture that has already been presented over the course of the last 2 weeks or so by other Members of this body and by those outside of this body with respect to our candidate for President and our retiring majority leader, Senator Bob Dole. All I can do is to take that photograph from a very slightly different angle and, I hope, make it at least a slightly deeper photograph of a great man. This is important, however, because the Bob Dole we, who have worked with him for a year or for a decade, know is not the Bob Dole as he has been pictured to our fellow citizens all across the United States. It is exactly for that reason, of course, that he is leaving us and his magnificent and, I believe, rewarding career in this body to share his real character, his real personality with all of the people of the United States in his quest for the Presidency. Bob Dole is, I think, first of all, a man of extraordinary patience-- perhaps the single most significant requirement for a leader of a body of 99 other Members, all of whom most of the time feel that they are in possession of absolute truth or the precise way in which the Senate should conduct its business. Bob Dole seems never to have lost a sunny equanimity, even under the most difficult circumstances. His wit seems never to have deserted him.…”