John Kerry Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• My kids just brought home a beautiful pumpkin, but you know what? I'm going to return it because it's a Democratic pumpkin. It has the orange color of John Kerry's tan, and the roundness of Teddy Kennedy.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Beautiful, Home, Kids

  "Trail Tales: Who's Really Smarter?" by Liza Porteus, Corbett Riner, www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2004.

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• Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Eye, Politics, Conversation

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• Democratic candidate John Kerry on Tuesday chose fellow Senator John Edwards to be his running mate. Asked about Edwards' lack of foreign policy experience, Kerry revealed his new campaign slogan, 'I Promise Not to Die.'

  Dennis Miller

  Running, Tuesday, Promise

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• [Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.

  William Safire

  Class, Politics, Resentment

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• [Sen. John] Kerry is also a man who opposes the death penalty, wants to restrict access to guns and voted against the resolution approving the start of ground operations against Saddam Hussein in 1991 - just what you would expect from Ted Kennedy's partner and Michael Dukakis's running mate.

  David S. Broder

  Running, Gun, Men

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• ...one is reminded that [John Kerry, D-MA] really just a better-looking Ted Kennedy, a richer Michael Dukakis.

  Laura Ingraham

  Politics, Ted Kennedy

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• In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington. Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so. John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment.

  Zell Miller

  Military, Government, Years

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• Much of John Kerry's recent surge has come at the expense of Howard Dean. The situation reflected in his hot new bumper sticker, 'Dated Dean, Married Kerry.' It's cute and a lot more tasteful than the alternative version, 'Dated Dean, Married Kerry, Finger-Banged Kucinich.'

  Jon Stewart

  Cute, Hot, Alternatives

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Kerry is saying that Bush never showed up for his national guard duty ... and now Bush is on the attack. He's accusing John Kerry of ducking time in the national guard by hiding out in the jungles of Vietnam.

  Jay Leno

  Vietnam, Hiding, Accusing

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• Political experts are saying the reason John Kerry is doing so well is because he's 'electable.' Hey, so was Al Gore - in fact, he even got elected and it didn't help him at all.

  Jay Leno

  Political, Experts, Hey

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• But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome.

  Brad Carson

  People, Guy, Overcoming

  "Central Casting" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 29, 2006.

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• John Kerry had surgery on his right shoulder this week to repair some damage. It was pretty bad, he had no feeling. It was almost like he was a Republican.

  David Letterman

  Feelings, Damage, Republican

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• The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disputed whether John Kerry deserved some of his five medals. A large part of Kerry's defense was an appeal to the authority of veterans who supported him-one of whom has now been revealed to have received a medal he doesn't deserve. This doesn't prove the Kerry detractors were right, but it certainly doesn't weaken their case.

  James Taranto

  Defense, Veteran, Boat

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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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• 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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• Today Secretary of State John Kerry visited the small African nation of Djibouti. Or to use the official diplomatic term, he made a Djibouti call.

  Conan O'Brien

  Today, Use, States

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• John Kerry's newfound interest in fiscal discipline is a political gimmick that defies his 20-year record in the Senate and stands in stark contrast to his reckless and expansive promises of new government spending on the campaign trail.

  Steve Schmidt

  Government, Years, Discipline

  "Kerry slams Bush over deficit". www.cnn.com. April 8, 2004.

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