Bob Kerrey Quotes

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• A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.
• 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…
• Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?
• Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.
• Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best…
• Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.
• It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.
• 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…
• Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.
• There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.
• I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.
• I've been a Yankees fan since I was six.
• The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.
• When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.
• 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…
• 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…
• The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best.

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