John Kerry Quotes - Page 2

• With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Memories, Secret, Ignorant

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• John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

  Eleanor Clift

  Politics, Dilettantes

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• Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible?

  Jon Stewart

  Lying, Sound, Telling The Truth

  "The Oscar for best satirist goes to ..." by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2006.

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• With the presidential debates right around the corner, John Kerry is going to play Mitt Romney to help the President prepare for the debates. That's kind of a stretch; a rich white guy from Massachusetts playing a rich white guy from Massachusetts.

  Jay Leno

  Play, White, Guy

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?

  Ann Coulter

  Running, Romance, Mates

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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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• John Kerry's campaign attacks on gas prices ignore the reality of Kerry's long record of supporting higher gas prices and blocking the president's comprehensive energy plan.

  Steve Schmidt

  Block, Reality, Long

  "Kerry faults Bush on homeland security", www.cnn.com. May 27, 2004.

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• For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

  Zell Miller

  Years, Issues, Glitter

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This is negative pandering; he talks a lot without really ruling anything out so you can draw your own conclusions.....Kerry has been talking for years, and yet such is the thicket of his verbiage that he has achieved almost complete strategic ambiguity.

  David Brooks

  Talking, Years, Interesting

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

  Jonah Goldberg

  Juvenile, Okay, Bits

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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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• 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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