RIP Bob Dole.

This is an excerpt from his acceptance speech at the 1996 Republican convention. It’s a powerful statement. Many say that this was his best speech ever. I watched it that night on television and I would agree.


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“And who am I that stands before you tonight?

I was born in Russell, Kansas, a small town in the middle of the prairie surrounded by wheat and oil wells. As my neighbors and friends from Russell, who tonight sit in front of this hall, know well, Russell, though not the West, looks out upon the West.

And like most small towns on the plains, it is a place where no one grows up without an intimate knowledge of distance.

And the first thing you learn on the prairie is the relative size of a man compared to the lay of the land. And under the immense sky where I was born and raised, a man is very small, and if he thinks otherwise, he is wrong.”
 
A true statesman, gentleman and hero. Was always willing and able to make deals across party lines. Not like today's buffoonary on both sides. RIP Sir, and don't look back.
 
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