Quotes John Kerry
John Kerry on Ronald Reagan
Reagan's deployment of the MX missile is 'destabilizing' and that it increases the chances that the Soviets will launch a nuclear strike." (John Ellement, States News Service, 3/19/95)
President Reagan should reorder his priorities. We don't need expensive and exotic weapons systems." (Lt. Gov. John Kerry, Letter To Constituent, April 1983)
The defense expenditures of the Reagan Administration are without any relevancy to the threat this nation is currently facing...." ("Kerry Asks $54 Billion Cut In Reagan Defense Budget," Berkshire Eagle, 5/30/84)
We don't need another Ronald Reagan type in Washington. Let me tell you that." (PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, 6/5/96)
I'm proud that I stood against Ronald Reagan, not with him." (Deborah Orin, "Real Reason I Want To Be A Dem: Clark," New York Post, 10/4/03)
'We've seen governors come to Washington who don't have the experience with Washington and they get in trouble real fast. And they don't have the experience in foreign policy, and they get in trouble pretty fast,' Kerry said. 'Look at Ronald Reagan. Look at Jimmy Carter and now, obviously, George Bush.'" (Ron Fournier, "Kerry Seeks Shift Amid War Funds Request," Associated Press, 9/8/03)
Of the Reagan White House, "They were willing to literally put the Constitution at risk because they believed there was somehow a higher order of things, that the ends do in fact justify the means. That's the most Marxist, totalitarian doctrine I've ever heard of in my life.... You've done the very thing that James Madison and others feared when they were struggling to put the Constitution together, which was to create an unaccountable system with runaway power . . . running off against the will of the American people." ("Not Too Late For A War Crimes Trial," OC Weekly, 2/1/02)
I think it was a silly and rather immature approach," of Reagan's dismissal of a "peace offer" from Sandinista junta leader Daniel Ortega.
More Kerry: "I am willing...to take the risk in the effort to put to test the good faith of the Sandinistas." (John F. Kerry, The Complete Biography by the Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best, p.217)
Days later, Ortega went to Moscow to collect a $200 million loan from the Soviets, leaving Democrats "embarrassed," in the words of then-Speaker Tip O'Neill.
When Reagan bombed Libya in response to a Berlin disco bombing (killed one U.S. soldier and wounded 51): "It is obvious that our response was not proportional to the disco bombing and even violated the Administration's own guidelines to hit clearly defined terrorist targets, thereby minimizing the risk to innocent civilians.... We are not going to solve the problem of terrorism with this kind of retaliation. There are numerous other actions we can take, in concert with our allies, to bring significant pressure to bear on countries supporting or harboring terrorists."
When American troops invaded Grenada, Kerry denounced the action as "a bully's show of force."
While ripping Wesley Clark in a Democratic debate: "I'm not going to characterize other people, but while he (Clark) was voting for Richard Nixon and for Ronald Reagan, I was fighting against both of their policies and what they did, frankly, to the average working person in this country and to some of our hopes and dreams."
http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerry200406090827.asp
Reagan's deployment of the MX missile is 'destabilizing' and that it increases the chances that the Soviets will launch a nuclear strike." (John Ellement, States News Service, 3/19/95)
President Reagan should reorder his priorities. We don't need expensive and exotic weapons systems." (Lt. Gov. John Kerry, Letter To Constituent, April 1983)
The defense expenditures of the Reagan Administration are without any relevancy to the threat this nation is currently facing...." ("Kerry Asks $54 Billion Cut In Reagan Defense Budget," Berkshire Eagle, 5/30/84)
We don't need another Ronald Reagan type in Washington. Let me tell you that." (PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, 6/5/96)
I'm proud that I stood against Ronald Reagan, not with him." (Deborah Orin, "Real Reason I Want To Be A Dem: Clark," New York Post, 10/4/03)
'We've seen governors come to Washington who don't have the experience with Washington and they get in trouble real fast. And they don't have the experience in foreign policy, and they get in trouble pretty fast,' Kerry said. 'Look at Ronald Reagan. Look at Jimmy Carter and now, obviously, George Bush.'" (Ron Fournier, "Kerry Seeks Shift Amid War Funds Request," Associated Press, 9/8/03)
Of the Reagan White House, "They were willing to literally put the Constitution at risk because they believed there was somehow a higher order of things, that the ends do in fact justify the means. That's the most Marxist, totalitarian doctrine I've ever heard of in my life.... You've done the very thing that James Madison and others feared when they were struggling to put the Constitution together, which was to create an unaccountable system with runaway power . . . running off against the will of the American people." ("Not Too Late For A War Crimes Trial," OC Weekly, 2/1/02)
I think it was a silly and rather immature approach," of Reagan's dismissal of a "peace offer" from Sandinista junta leader Daniel Ortega.
More Kerry: "I am willing...to take the risk in the effort to put to test the good faith of the Sandinistas." (John F. Kerry, The Complete Biography by the Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best, p.217)
Days later, Ortega went to Moscow to collect a $200 million loan from the Soviets, leaving Democrats "embarrassed," in the words of then-Speaker Tip O'Neill.
When Reagan bombed Libya in response to a Berlin disco bombing (killed one U.S. soldier and wounded 51): "It is obvious that our response was not proportional to the disco bombing and even violated the Administration's own guidelines to hit clearly defined terrorist targets, thereby minimizing the risk to innocent civilians.... We are not going to solve the problem of terrorism with this kind of retaliation. There are numerous other actions we can take, in concert with our allies, to bring significant pressure to bear on countries supporting or harboring terrorists."
When American troops invaded Grenada, Kerry denounced the action as "a bully's show of force."
While ripping Wesley Clark in a Democratic debate: "I'm not going to characterize other people, but while he (Clark) was voting for Richard Nixon and for Ronald Reagan, I was fighting against both of their policies and what they did, frankly, to the average working person in this country and to some of our hopes and dreams."
http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerry200406090827.asp
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