Bob Kerrey famous quotes

04-05-2025

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

#Attention #Speech #Pausing
The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best.
-- Bob Kerrey

#Thank You #Kindness #Giving
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

#Winning #Thinking #Order
When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.
-- Bob Kerrey

#Fighting #Justice #Minorities
The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.
-- Bob Kerrey

#Heart #Purple #Certain
I've been a Yankees fan since I was six.
-- Bob Kerrey

#Yankees #Fans #Six
I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.
-- Bob Kerrey

#Political #Causes #Public Service
There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.
-- Bob Kerrey

#Fighting #Force #Liberating
Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.
-- Bob Kerrey

#Baseball #Cuba #Needs
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

#Mistake #Feelings #Looks
It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.
-- Bob Kerrey

#Election #Moments #Clear
Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.
-- Bob Kerrey

#Whales #Beast #Eternity
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 in our natures.
-- Bob Kerrey

#Powerful #Kindness #Agents
Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?
-- Bob Kerrey

#Liars #Realizing #Clinton
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. Its not clear how they will do it, but it never is.
-- Bob Kerrey

#Commitment #People #Looks
A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.
-- Bob Kerrey

#Perseverance #Hero #Doe
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

#War #Years #Ideas

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