Elizabeth Dole famous quotes

04-17-2025

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for 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

#Children #Husband #Women
We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.
-- Elizabeth Dole

#Purpose #Used #Force
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

#People #Decision #Listening
It's absolutely the wrong signal, I think, to those who have entered this country legally or those who may be considering illegal immigration for a lot of benefits to be provided... Emergency medical needs should be met, but otherwise I think send the wrong signal to those who have come into the country legally and those who may be considering illegal immigration. So as you know, I've called for an increase in the border patrol agents. I've looked at that from both the standpoints of drugs and to prevent illegal immigration, but I think that's where the focus should be.
-- Elizabeth Dole

#Country #Thinking #Focus
The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.
-- Elizabeth Dole

#Heart #Ideas #World
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

#Believe #Soul #Mind
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

#Media #Iraq #Als
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

#Agreement #Play #United States
When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?
-- Elizabeth Dole

#Awards #Differences #People
What empowerment is all about [is] finding something which infuses you with a sense of mission, with a passion for your life's work. I don't believe there is one path for women or one nature to fulfill. Real fulfillment, real empowerment is often different than we imagine and better than we plan.
-- Elizabeth Dole

#Real #Believe #Passion
[On Ronald Reagan:] The President doesn't want yes-men around. When he says no, we all say no.
-- Elizabeth Dole

#Men #President #Want
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

#Reading #Heart #Commitment
In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.
-- Elizabeth Dole

#Iraq #World #Hussein
Whether on the floor of Congress or in the boardrooms of corporate America or in the corridors of a big city hospital, there is no body of professional expertise and no anthology of case studies which can supplant the force of character which provides both a sense of direction and a means of fulfillment. It asks, not what you want to be, but who you want to be.
-- Elizabeth Dole

#Mean #Character #America
In seeking success you must also seek fulfillment. Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be.
-- Elizabeth Dole

#Want #What You Want #Fulfillment
We are a great nation because we are a good people.
-- Elizabeth Dole

#America #People #Good People
The United States is the leader of the free world.
-- Elizabeth Dole

#Leadership #United States #World
To be impacted. Then, once a policy is determined, you call on them to help...
-- Elizabeth Dole

#Helping #Determined #Policy
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

#War #Blow #Iraq
The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.
-- Elizabeth Dole

#People #Listening #Coworker
[On power:] Some people really have almost a disdain for that word. They feel it is alien to conscience. Power for power's sake, no. But the positive use of power for positive purposes is very important. You have to understand that. You've got to have a seat at the policy table if you want to make a difference.
-- Elizabeth Dole

#Differences #People #Important

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