"Just because he says it won't work, doesn't mean it is true."

[Ripley]

Paraphrasing, but that has to be the best line by JK in the debate. He was answering Smirky's repeated proclamation that he has a crystal ball and can tell that bilateral talks with North Korea will fail.

Great answer John, you could apply that to just about all of the idiot's statements.

What other great one liners did John have?

[ramapo]

1. That was the best

Especially coming at the end...it left a lasting impression

[RuleofLaw]

2. My favorite Kerry quote:

"I mean, we can remember when President Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis sent his secretary of state to Paris to meet with DeGaulle. And in the middle of the discussion, to tell them about the missiles in Cuba, he said, here, let me show you the photos. And DeGaulle waved them off and said, No, no, no, no. The word of the president of the United States is good enough for me.

How many leaders in the world today would respond to us, as a result of what we've done, in that way?"

[gbwarming]

3. Saddam Hussein didn't attack us. Osama bin Laden attacked us. Al Qaida att

This is an important point and the Bush response was pathetic. Bush has been making hay off the false conneciton between 9/11 and Iraq for three years - maybe we'll start to see a shift back to reality in public perception now.


KERRY: Jim, the president just said something extraordinarily revealing and frankly very important in this debate. In answer to your question about Iraq and sending people into Iraq, he just said, "The enemy attacked us."

Saddam Hussein didn't attack us. Osama bin Laden attacked us. Al Qaida attacked us. And when we had Osama bin Laden cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, 1,000 of his cohorts with him in those mountains. With the American military forces nearby and in the field, we didn't use the best trained troops in the world to go kill the world's number one criminal and terrorist.

They outsourced the job to Afghan warlords, who only a week earlier had been on the other side fighting against us, neither of whom trusted each other.

(... complete transcript at http://debates.org )

BUSH: First of all, of course I know Osama bin Laden attacked us. I know that.

And secondly, to think that another round of resolutions would have caused Saddam Hussein to disarm, disclose, is ludicrous, in my judgment. It just shows a significant difference of opinion.

We tried diplomacy. We did our best. He was hoping to turn a blind eye. And, yes, he would have been stronger had we not dealt with him. He had the capability of making weapons, and he would have made weapons.

LEHRER: Thirty seconds, Senator.

KERRY: Thirty-five to forty countries in the world had a greater capability of making weapons at the moment the president invaded than Saddam Hussein. And while he's been diverted, with 9 out of 10 active duty divisions of our Army, either going to Iraq, coming back from Iraq, or getting ready to go, North Korea's gotten nuclear weapons and the world is more dangerous. Iran is moving toward nuclear weapons and the world is more dangerous. Darfur has a genocide.

[Nevernose]

4. "would have caused Saddam Hussein to disarm"

This is one of my biggest frustrations, and one of the few things that Kerry could have jumped him for and didn't. You can't disarm what you don't have. Why the hell is * still talking about disarming Saddam Hussein?