Senator John Neely Kennedy is an American lawyer and politician. Yet, he is not related to America’s 35th president, John F. Kennedy or the Kennedy family in any way. He has been serving as a junior U.S. Senator from Louisiana under the Democrats since 2017. He was also the state treasurer from 2000 to 2017.
Kennedy was born in Centreville, Mississippi, on November 21, 1951. But, he was raised in Zachary, Louisiana, north of Baton Rouge. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University in 1973. He studied philosophy, political science, and economics. He earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1977.
While at the University of Virginia, Senator John Kennedy was the executive editor of the Virginia Law Review. He was also elected to the Order of the Coif.
He later graduated with first-class honors in Civil Law at the University of Oxford, England, in 1979. Subsequently, he returned to Louisiana, where he began to practice. He worked as a partner at a law firm, Chaffe McCall. He also taught at the Louisiana State University Law Center from 2002 to 2016.
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John Kennedy Quotes on Government/Trump/Power
Power does not change you, it unmasks you.
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I don’t think President Trump is a racist.
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If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.
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I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter the government. The other thing I like about the government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.
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My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‘Hurt Feelings Report’ and let’s move on.
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I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party.
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John Kennedy Quotes on Women Rights/Equality/Economy
FEMA is making flood insurance unaffordable for Louisianans. Source: theadvertiser.com
If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.
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In theory, the MSRB is supposed to protect the public interest, investors, and state and local governments. In practice, the MSRB membership structure is more shaded toward protecting the financial professionals who broker the deals.
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You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.
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Taxpayers have long memories, especially when it comes to how their hard-earned money is spent.
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We also cannot allow Wall Street banks to rewrite the Second Amendment just because they’re too big to fail.
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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.
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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.
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American taxpayers have been generous to Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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John Kennedy Quotes on Gun Law
I don’t think we need more gun control laws. John Kennedy
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Beto’s copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole host of people here in Washington… they would be happy to confiscate America’s guns. And if you don’t believe that, then you probably also still believe in Bigfoot.
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John Kennedy Quotes on Health
John Kennedy Portrait. Source: britannica.com
I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.
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The Democratic position seems to be that everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.
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John Kennedy Quotes on Security/Foreign Relations
Conservative Kennedy Swings for the Fences in New Role on Capitol Hill. Source: virginia.edu
The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.
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One way to stop illegal immigration is a border wall.
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Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but I think there were some bad apples over there.
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I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.
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Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.
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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.
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I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.
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Let me state the obvious. Illegal immigration is illegal, duh.
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I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.
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Other John Kennedy Quotes
Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.
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I think we need more idiot control.
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I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.
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Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.
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My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.
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The NICS database has holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through.
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With all due respect, I am against dumb.
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The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.
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A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.
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Just because you’ve seen ‘My Cousin Vinny’ doesn’t qualify you to be a federal judge.
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Some of my colleagues argue that by further curtailing our Second Amendment rights, they can enhance public safety. Fine, the burden of proof is on them.
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When you meet with someone and you try to assess whether they’re telling you the truth or not, there’s several things you can do. You judge demeanor and credibility. You look at corroboration.
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The Second Amendment is just as important as all the other Amendments.
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Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.
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Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.
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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
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We must never forget that the highest form of appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them..
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
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I live in the Sate of IL & have most of my life, but I was born in Michigan. I truly enjoy listening to Senator Kennedy and his musings. They’re so “Down Home” and easy to understand. He reminds me so much of my Dad & the Good ‘Old Days of my youth! I’m old now, but not “to old.” I’m in Sen. Kennedy’s age group.
I drop everything to give John Kennedy my full attention. He always has a couple of straight faced zingers that I try to catch. Some cause explosive laughter! Above all he is honest, fair, and straight forward. Speaking for those in John’s age bracket, most of our dads and people we respected were this way. His demeanor is much respected and much enjoyed.
I’m an independent voter, I vote for who I think will be the best person for that position. Most of the time I vote for a Republican, but if John would run for President or any office, he would get my vote every time,hands down.
Thanks John,
It is so refreshing to hear a nice honest person speak intelligently.
Many of us could learn a lot from this man……..and have fun at the same time.
I will tune in more ,John,
Sincerely, Larry Messer