Political Quotes

Bob Kerrey

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Quotes by year · 1994202182 total · peak 1994 (25)
1994: 25 quotes1997: 1 quote1999: 3 quotes2004: 5 quotes2009: 15 quotes2010: 2 quotes2011: 1 quote2015: 10 quotes2017: 4 quotes2018: 3 quotes2019: 3 quotes2020: 2 quotes2021: 8 quotes
Dec 31, 2004

I think he said--I am paraphrasing from a couple years of memory past here--but he said, well, I am not asking, but if you can get one, yes.

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Apr 7, 2004

You said the president was tired of swating flies. Can you tell me one example where the president swatted a fly when it came to al Qaeda prior to 9/11?

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Apr 7, 2004

He hadn't swatted. Dr. Rice, we didn't -- 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?

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Apr 7, 2004

You said the president was tired of swatting flies. Can you tell me one example where the president swatted a fly when it came to al Qaeda prior to 9/11?

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Mar 23, 2004

I would love to get Dr. Rice in front of this commission, in the public, to have her answer a series of questions about that, because...

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Oct 15, 1999

The big thing I see in the system right now is we have a very high barrier to public service.

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Oct 15, 1999

I think it is very important to hang on to the bill the Senator from Wisconsin and the Senator from Arizona have put before us on campaign finance reform.

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Oct 15, 1999

I am persuaded this law needs to be changed for the good of the Republic, for the good of democracy.

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Dec 1, 1997

I do not know if the distinguished Senator from Connecticut said anything between the time I left my office and came here to the floor with which I disagree, but in the time that I watched him from my office and listened to his words from…

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May 12, 1994

Only some of the contaminants regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act are carcinogens. Is the Administrator permitted flexibility to set less stringent standards where other health effects are the basis for regulation?

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May 12, 1994

The health goals also reflect margins of safety for variability in the human population, extrapolation from animal test data to human health effects, and for the use of data that is not fully reflective of lifetime exposures. These margins…

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May 12, 1994

this resolution, once again, underscores the willingness of the people of the States to take charge of this program. They are not asking for regulatory relief without a willingness to assume the responsibility for setting priorities. In…

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