Quotes from John Kennedy

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

There's some jerks. There's some big egos. There are a few that think they're one of the Founding Fathers... in both parties.

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it's a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

One way to stop illegal immigration is a border wall.

I don't like to be bored.

Sometimes I'll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I'll just remember it.

I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don't.

We also cannot allow Wall Street banks to rewrite the Second Amendment just because they're too big to fail.

Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.

I filed the MSRB Reform Act, along with Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Doug Jones, because the board that oversees the muni-bond market is too secretive and too incestuous. Its membership shares the same DNA. That means the rulebook for municipal bonds is in the hands of a board that resembles a revolving door of longtime industry confederates.

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people's pockets - and I've driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they're not supposed to act on them.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don't follow the nuances of government like I do, because they're too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

I like policy - call me a nerd.

The FBI should not be a political body.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don't know.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

I don't know a country in the world that doesn't have borders and doesn't want to know who is coming into their country.

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

Life is precious.