Elizabeth Dole Quotes

• Sometimes I think we’re the only two lawyers in Washington who trust each other.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Topics in Uncategorized

• What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Choice, Choosing

• Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste of power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Topics in Achievement, Children, Power, Success

  Tags in Women

• We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North.

  Elizabeth Dole

• There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.

  Elizabeth Dole

• The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.

  Elizabeth Dole

• The United States is the leader of the free world.

  Elizabeth Dole

• My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.

  Elizabeth Dole

• Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq.

  Elizabeth Dole

• Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.

  Elizabeth Dole

• In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

  Elizabeth Dole

• I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.

  Elizabeth Dole

• Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.

  Elizabeth Dole

• We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Topics in Power

Elizabeth Dole (14)

Birth:	29th July, 1936
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole was born in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA. She is an American politician. She served as North Carolina's first female U.S. Senator. She is a member of the Republican Party. She served as Secretary of Transportation under Ronald Reagan and Secretary of Labor under George H.W. Bush administrations. In 1958, she graduated with distinction in Political Science. While teaching, she also pursued her master's degree in education from Harvard University, which she earned in 1960, followed by a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1965.

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