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Join the roomRobert Joseph Dole foi um político americano, advogado e oficial do Exército dos EUA que representou Kansas no Senado dos Estados Unidos de 1969 a 1996. Ele foi o líder republicano do Senado dos EUA durante os últimos 11 anos de seu mandato, incluindo três anos não consecutivos como Líder da Maioria do Senado dos EUA. Antes de seus 27 anos no Senado, ele serviu na Câmara dos Representantes dos Estados Unidos de 1961 a 1969. Dole também foi o candidato presidencial republicano na eleição presidencial de 1996 e o candidato a vice-presidente na eleição presidencial de 1976.
“As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.”
“If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.”
“I, Robert Joseph Dole, do solemnly swear... Sorry. Wrong speech.”
“If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates.”
“He lost the election, and I regret that he did, but they did. He had Rudy Giuliani running all over the country, claiming fraud. He never had one bit of fraud in all those lawsuits he filed and statements he made.”
“I don't like to second-guess, but I do believe we've lost something. I can't get my hand on it, but we're just not quite where we should be, as the greatest democracy in the world. And I don't know how you correct it, but I keep hoping that there will be a change in my lifetime.”
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