Voices

“Sometimes the views have been distorted and millions and millions of negative--dollars in negative advertising spent distorting my views, but I hope tonight you’ll get a better feel of who Bob Dole is what he’s all about.”

--Dole

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“Compared to four years ago, we’re clearly better off. We’ve got 10 1/2 million more jobs; the deficit’s been reduced by 60%; incomes are rising for the first time in a decade; the crime rates, the welfare rolls are falling; we’re putting 100,000 more police on the street; 60,000 felons, fugitives and stalkers have been denied handguns.”

--Clinton

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“There’s no doubt about it that many American people have lost their faith in government. They see scandals almost on a daily basis, they see ethical problems in the White House today, they see 900 FBI files of private persons being gathered up by somebody in the White House, nobody knows who hired this man.”

--Dole

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“I don’t think that Sen. Dole is too old to be president. It’s the age of his ideas that I question.”

--Clinton

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“I was asked a technical question [about cigarettes]--are they addictive? Maybe they--they probably are addictive. I don’t know, I’m not a doctor. . . . And it seems to me that what we need to do is to talk about not only tobacco, but drugs, because drug use in 12- to 17-year-olds has doubled in this administration, the last 44 months.”

--Dole

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“Part of my tax package -- which is paid for in my balanced budget plan -- would exempt up to half a million dollars in gains for people when they sell their homes, which I think is the biggest capital gains benefit we could give to most ordinary Americans.”

--Clinton

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“The capital gains rate? Cut it in half, cut it from 28% to 14%.”

--Dole

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“I am against quotas, I’m against giving anybody any kind of preference for something they’re not qualified for.”

--Clinton