Kerrey Quotes & Sayings

Well, you devious little woman you. Do you know what I do to wily women?
"You ... leave them panting and oneless after a world-class orgasm?" she guessed.
"Why yes. Yes, ma'am, I do." Picking her up, I carried her back to my room and kicked the door shut behind me. — Linda Kage

The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best. — Bob Kerrey

I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts. — Bob Kerrey

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others. — Bob Kerrey

My view is that you never argue with the customer about your name. — Bob Kerrey

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority. — Bob Kerrey

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. — Bob Kerrey

It was not just inappropriate behavior — Bob Kerrey

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary. — Bob Kerrey

I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes. — Bob Kerrey

But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in the Senate if I arrive there without permission to do the things I think need to be done. — Bob Kerrey

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election. — Bob Kerrey

The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart. — Bob Kerrey

Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that? — Bob Kerrey

Whatever we look at, and however we look at it, we see only through our own eyes. — C. G. Jung

Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from. — K'naan

The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here. — Bob Kerrey

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator. — Bob Kerrey

CBS News on Tuesday had Bob Kerrey in a Vietnam scandal, Senator Bob Torricelli in a donor scandal and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a sex scandal. This confirms what we always knew. Bill Clinton does the work of three men. — Argus Hamilton

When I say be skeptical of everything I mean it. Just because someone was elected to do a job doesn't mean that person has any idea of what they're doing. — Bob Kerrey

How can something as necessary as breathing be immoral? — Susan Scott

Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast. — Bob Kerrey

If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is. — Bob Kerrey

Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Centre, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto itself. — Thomas Raymond Kelly

No reality has the power to dispel a dream. — Lemony Snicket

I think the world likes to pick apart different songs and play doctor with songs sometimes and make them into this big controversial thing. — Katy Perry

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing. — Bob Kerrey

A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it. — Bob Kerrey

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master. — Mark Twain

We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background has equal standing in the public forum, all of us. Because we believe this idea so firmly, we are an inclusive, rather than an exclusive party. Let everybody come. — Barbara Jordan

I've been a Yankees fan since I was six. — Bob Kerrey

Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor. — Al Franken