John F. Kerry Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
-
“Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them.”
-- John F. KerrySource : "President Obama's strategy against ISIS remains unclear". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2014.
-
“Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.”
-- John F. Kerry -
“You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!”
-- John F. KerrySource : "America Is in No Position to Lecture Russia About Imperialism" by Sheldon Richman, reason.com. March 16, 2014.
-
“I believe that this president [George W. Bush], regrettably, rushed us into a war, made decisions about foreign policy, pushed alliances away. And, as a result, America is now bearing this extraordinary burden where we are not as safe as we ought to be.”
-- John F. Kerry -
-
“Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans are not. It is time to speak again and stand again for the ideal that in the richest nation ever on this planet, it is wrong for 41 million Americans, most of them in working families, to worry at night and wake up in the morning without the basic protection of health insurance.”
-- John F. Kerry -
“So we can do a better job of homeland security. I can do a better job of waging a smarter, more effective war on terror and guarantee that we will go after the terrorists. I will hunt them down, and we'll kill them, we'll capture them. We'll do whatever is necessary to be safe.”
-- John F. Kerry -
“America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights.”
-- John F. Kerry -
“The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family.”
-- John F. Kerry -
-
“Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.”
-- John F. Kerry -
“The military's job is to win the war. A president's job is to win the peace.”
-- John F. Kerry -
“Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.'”
-- John F. Kerry -
“It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one.”
-- John F. Kerry -
-
“You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.”
-- John F. Kerry -
“America deserves a real discussion about real policy.”
-- John F. Kerry -
“Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.”
-- John F. Kerry -
“It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.”
-- John F. Kerry -
-
“Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly, beginning in Genesis. And Muslim-majority countries are among the most vulnerable. Our response to this challenge ought to be rooted in a sense of stewardship of Earth. And for me and for many of us here today, that responsibility comes from God.”
-- John F. KerrySource : "President Obama's strategy against ISIS remains unclear". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2014.
-
“A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.”
-- John F. Kerry -
“We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts,”
-- John F. Kerry -
“I believe America is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances.”
-- John F. Kerry -
-
“I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not free. I saw the gratitude of people toward the United States for all that we had done. I felt goosebumps as I got off a military train and heard the Army band strike up 'Stars and Stripes Forever.'”
-- John F. Kerry -
“We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that freedom prevailed, and we were heroes.”
-- John F. Kerry -
“My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.”
-- John F. Kerry -
“Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.”
-- John F. Kerry -
-
“How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
-- John F. Kerry -
“I still believe Americas destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.”
-- John F. Kerry -
“Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if you're looking at a competitive world, you say to yourself, "Hey, I do better overseas than I do here in America."”
-- John F. Kerry -
“I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.”
-- John F. Kerry -
-
“In order to have the best intelligence in the world to know who the terrorists are and where they are and what they're plotting, you've got to have the best cooperation you've ever had in the world.”
-- John F. Kerry -
“Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran upstairs and risked their lives so that others might live; when rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon; when the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation's Capitol; when flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.”
-- John F. Kerry
You may also like:
-
Al Gore
Former Vice President of the United States -
Alexandra Kerry
Filmmaker -
Barack Obama
44th U.S. President -
Bashar al-Assad
President of Syria -
Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel -
Chuck Hagel
United States Secretary of Defense -
David Cameron
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom -
Donald Trump
Investor -
George W. Bush
43rd U.S. President -
Hillary Clinton
Former United States Secretary of State -
Joe Biden
Vice President of the United States -
John McCain
United States Senator -
Mitt Romney
Former Governor of Massachusetts -
Mohammad Javad Zarif
Diplomat -
Ronald Reagan
40th U.S. President -
Teresa Heinz
Businesswoman -
Vanessa Kerry
Physician -
William J. Clinton
42nd U.S. President -
Ashton Carter
United States Secretary of Defense -
Sergey Lavrov
Diplomat