Bob Kerrey

Also known as Joseph Robert Kerrey

American politician and U.S. Navy Medal of Honor recipient

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“Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually good.”
“You are among the two or three most talented people I have ever met in politics.”
“In general, all human beings have harsh experiences. It's the great voyage of human life to suffer losses.”
“I think for the most part they're ordinary guys who did an extraordinary thing and most of us recognize that, you know, there but for the grace of God goes somebody else. And most of them feel that they received it for others and that their own actions were not especially heroic.”
“When I was, say, fifteen years old in 1958, I could have gone and talked to a veteran of World War I or World War II and said, 'Tell me your story.' They could have taught us with these men who had experience in war, instead of giving us a dry history book. I think that to understand history, to be excited by history, a human being needs something. You need the capacity to feel sympathy for the people you're reading about in the story.”
“I read War and Peace from cover to cover last summer, and what I found remarkable was how Tolstoy was able to bring his own philosophy of life into the story without distracting you from it. His big theme was that history was not the sum of actions of 'great men.' It was the sum of actions by lots of individuals. It is true that your actions get hemmed in by contingency but there is no great 'master plan' up there. There is no inevitability. You choose. The moment comes. You choose.”

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Commons category: Bob Kerrey
date of birth: 1943-08-27
name in native language: Bob Kerrey
P10632: Bob Kerrey
National Governors Association biography URL: www.nga.org/governor/joseph-robert-bob-kerrey

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