Bob Kerrey Quotes (38 Quotes)


    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.

    It is likely that the biggest contributor is popular culture. A show like 'Project Runway' brands Parsons all the time, and that has had an impact on the number of people who want to become fashion designers. It's been largely good for the school.

    For the first 10 years (afterward), I just tried to figure out how to get healthy again.

    During a recent conversation with former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, Wellstone joked about his legacy. According to Kerrey, Wellstone said, I think my epitaph is going to read, 'We don't know what he did, but he sure looked tired.' ... Now I think his epitaph will be, 'We didn't realize what a good man he was until he was gone.'

    There are going to be in the short term terrifying, confusing moments (like) attacks on Iraqi police headquarters. The intent (by the opposition) is to produce destabilization, to cause people to say let's get out of here, they don't like us.... I don't think the U.S. is going to cut and run.


    If you just look at the surface of people playing games, you are missing the point, which is that games are all about managing and manipulating information.

    (We) went on and took fire where we expected this meeting to occur, and we returned very lethal fire. And when the firing was over, all we had was women and children that were dead.

    Many of the things that are being said, if they are believed by the American people as the truth, will cast a pall of illegitimacy over the vice president if he ends up being the person that wins,

    It's very important for Americans to put the size of this threat in perspective, ... Just as it is a terrible mistake to underestimate a threat, and I think we underestimated a threat of espionage by the Chinese all the way through the 1980s and the 1990s, it is also a big risk for us to overestimate the threat. This is not the worst case of espionage in the 20th century.

    I believe Bill Bradley's leadership ... is needed in the United States of America in the 21st century,

    If they win one more time -- if DOD wins one more time -- the next time there's a dust-up and there's a failure, don't call the director of Central Intelligence up here, kick the crap out of DOD,

    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. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.

    Former senator Bob Kerrey made the point well when he told his fellow 911 commissioners and the television audience that this document of Fox News, ... this is a background briefing. And all of us that have provided background briefings for the press before should beware. I mean, Fox should say 'occasionally fair and balanced' after putting something like this out. Because they violated a serious trust. ... So I object to what they've done, and I think it's an unfortunate thing they did.

    It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

    The FBI indicates patterns of suspicious activity in the United States consistent with preparations for hijacking.

    I just think they've made a terrible mistake, at least leaving the impression that if the boss wants the conclusion to be A, you're going to deliver intelligence in order for that conclusion to be A, because that's what he wants.

    That would be a bit odd, given their preference for allowing states to make these kinds of decisions,

    I think the Congress should begin to examine what they need to subpoena, ... They clearly need to get to the bottom of this.

    We don't understand why a surveillance opportunity wasn't granted. If the Justice Department isn't at fault, then the process is at fault.

    I saw women and children in front of us being hit and cut to pieces... After that night...I had become someone I did not recognize.

    Bill has the vision to challenge America to greatness and the integrity to restore the nation's faith in our public institutions.

    A proposal like this can be consistent with Democratic values, it absolutely can.

    There's only a certain number of things we can do. I would have preferred to say in this instance to the Europeans, 'This is one you're going to have to do,'

    Dr. Rice, we only swatted a fly once on the 20th of August, 1998. We didn't swat any flies afterwards. How the hell could he be tired

    We're 5 billion or 6 billion short of getting people trained to a level that would make me comfortable.

    There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

    I love Gerhard, ... We've talked to one another over the past 32 years. He's never expressed anything of the kind to me over that period of time.

    The skills and methods of video games are becoming a part of our life and culture in so many ways that it is impossible to ignore.

    With Versailles (the treaty) in 1919, we viewed the Arabs as largely tribal, bedouin, backward. They couldn't govern themselves... the French, British, provided the stable government that allowed commercial transactions.... As a consequence of our lack of confidence in them, we've communicated that democracy is a vital, difficult option for everyone but them.

    I would not say 'impossible,' ... But, boy, it feels awfully close to it.

    Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

    Kerrey has said he feels guilty about what happened and unable to justify it militarily or morally. It may be that I did nothing wrong, ... But I felt like I did something wrong. Here's what happened, and I cannot justify it.

    A lot of students that come out of this program may not go to work for Electronic Arts. They may go to Wall Street. Because to me, there is no significant difference - except for clothing preference - between people who are making games and people who are manipulating huge database systems to try to figure out where the markets are headed. It's largely the same skill set, the critical thinking. Games are becoming a major part of our lives, and there is actually good news in that.

    The idea is to establish a program that doesn't provide a subsidy for those who don't need to be subsidized.

    We're all seeing the same thing - our students, our staff and our faculty are asking that we provide quality facilities. They matter. They affect the decision to come, the decision to stay and the quality of the work while you're here.

    We fired because we were fired upon, ... We did not go out on a mission to kill innocent people. I feel guilty about what happened.

    You're asking too much of me right now. ... I'm just trying to get a private memory, public.

    they're reckless, they're irresponsible and they're wrong.


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