John Kerry Quotes

• John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Hard Work, America

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty.

  John F. Kerry

  Duty

  John Kerry's Acceptance Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, www.washingtonpost.com. July 29, 2004.

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• The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why - with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him.

  Jay Leno

  Two, Issues, People

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• You see the pictures in the paper today of John Kerry windsurfing? He's at his home in Nantucket this week, doing his favorite thing, windsurfing. Even his hobby depends on which way the wind blows.

  Jay Leno

  Home, Blow, Wind

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• John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Black And White, Thinking, Issues

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• President Bush said John Kerry is on both sides of every issue. And Kerry replied, 'No, I'm not ... but there is some truth to that.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Issues, President, Sides

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• Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.

  David Letterman

  Change, Gay, Yesterday

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• John Kerry and Ralph Nader met face-to-face, it was a historic meeting. Astronomers said today their meeting actually created what is called a 'charisma black hole.'

  Jay Leno

  Black, Today, Faces

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• When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know its got legs.

  Phil Bredesen

  Agreement, Issues, Legs

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• John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

  Mark Shields

  Campaigns, Biographies

  "Shields and Kristol Discuss Kerry’s War Record". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. August 20, 2004.

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• George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.

  Mark Shields

  Noble, Supporter

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• Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command save one has stood with him.

  Mark Shields

  Sea, Boat, Command

  "Shields and Kristol Discuss Kerry’s War Record". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. August 20, 2004.

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• John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.

  Max Cleland

  Vietnam, Ends

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• John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Juvenile, Okay, Bits

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• I don't think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don't like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world's problems.

  Tony Campolo

  Party, Blessing, Thinking

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• In his speech last night, John Kerry said this was the beginning of the end of the Bush administration. I agree. Sure, it may take another five years, but this is it.

  Jay Leno

  Night, Years, Lasts

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• If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.

  Ann Coulter

  Waiting, Doe, Dollars

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.147, Crown Forum

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• President George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 largely because he was seen as comfortable in his own skin, while rival John Kerry was viewed as a flip-flopping opportunist.

  Ron Fournier

  Skins, President, Reelection

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• I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.

  John Mellencamp

  Country, Hatred, President

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• You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.

  John Podhoretz

  Winning, Thinking, Political

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• You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.

  Mark Shields

  People, Boat

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• I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am.

  Howard Dean

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Issues

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• John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took torture to avoid saying.

  Paul Galanti

  Enemy, Vietnam, Prison

  "Hot Stories for the Week of August 16 - 20". "The Beltway Boys" with Mort Kondracke, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2004.

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• I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!

  Pat Sajak

  Together, Cost, Crowds

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• On a day when all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, are celebrating the growth of freedom and honoring the sacrifices of American and Iraqi troops with elections in Iraq, it's sad that John Kerry has chosen once again to offer vacillation and defeatism. Even after the first free elections in Iraq in more than 50 years John Kerry still believes Iraq is more of terrorist threat than when the brutal tyrant Saddam Hussein was in power and even more remarkably Kerry is now once again for funding our troops, after being for the funding before he was against it.

  Ken Mehlman

  Party, Believe, Sacrifice

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