Kerrey Bob Quotes & Sayings

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

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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

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

In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion, and I can't buy any of it. — Phyllis Diller

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

O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

When we have completed all the journeys and adventures through our variety of lives we are supposed to return to the creator with our accumulation of knowledge. It is then absorbed. In this way we are considered cells in the body of God. — Dolores Cannon

To shut you eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. — Anthony Doerr

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

I never liked to kick or be kicked. — Oscar Wilde

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

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

In a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods. — Toni Cade Bambara