Kerrey Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

Al Franken

#3. The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best.

Bob Kerrey

#4. If you log onto this (Cars.gov) at your home, everything in your home is now theirs.

Glenn Beck

#5. Gary nips my finger and starts clawing his way up my shoulder, hissing like an angry kettle. It's just not natural for something so cute and fluffy to be so nasty.
I look at Nick in distress. "Why is he spitting at me?"
"Maybe he thinks he's a llama.

Holly Smale

#6. 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

#7. Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders. Their purpose is to make a profit.

John Rogers

#8. 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

#9. I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.

Rita Ora

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

Bob Kerrey

#11. I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.

Bob Kerrey

#12. There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

Bob Kerrey

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

Bob Kerrey

#14. I'm a huge fan of The Sopranos, and suddenly, you find yourself going one-to-one with this guy who you've been watching for years, watching every flicker in his eye and every detail on his face.

Peter Capaldi

#15. Some things are so useless one can't live without them.

Marty Rubin

#16. It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#17. Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

Bob Kerrey

#18. Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.

Sabine Baring-Gould

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

Bob Kerrey

#20. When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

Bob Kerrey

#21. Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?

Bob Kerrey

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

Bob Kerrey

#23. It was not just inappropriate behavior

Bob Kerrey

#24. 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

#25. None of the dead come back. But some stay.

John Of Patmos

#26. 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

#27. It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#28. 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

#29. Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.

Byron Katie

#30. The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.

Bob Kerrey

#31. My view is that you never argue with the customer about your name.

Bob Kerrey

#32. 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

#33. All the jarring, rattling and clanking, spurting and hissing of the moving train of the train dissolved in the distance into something that was half a sob and half a sigh.

R.K. Narayan

#34. Life is just an ongoing process.

Stefanie Powers

#35. Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#36. Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.

Bob Kerrey

#37. I've been a Yankees fan since I was six.

Bob Kerrey