John F. Kerry Quotes:

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.

source: - "President Obama's strategy against ISIS remains unclear". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2014.

Topics: Reality, Thinking, Epidemics, Proliferation

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.

Topics: Senior, Income, Poverty, Fixed Income

You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!

source: - "America Is in No Position to Lecture Russia About Imperialism" by Sheldon Richman, reason.com. March 16, 2014.

Topics: Country, Order, Phony, Pretext

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.

Topics: War, Believe, America, President George W Bush

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.

Topics: Morning, Caring, Night

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.

Topics: Jobs, War, Guarantees, Better Jobs

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.

Topics: America, Rights, People, Democracy And Human Rights, Trustees

The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family.

Topics: Care, Problem, Health Care, American Family, Health Care System

Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.

Topics: Violence, Gender, Threat, Peace And Security

The military's job is to win the war. A president's job is to win the peace.

Topics: Jobs, Military, War

Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.'

Topics: Alaska, Russia, Said, Rocky Iv

It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one.

Topics: Country, Giving Up, Weapons

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.

Topics: Smart, Iraq, Effort, Dumb Liberal, Stupid Liberal

America deserves a real discussion about real policy.

Topics: Real, America, Policy

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.

Topics: September 11, Together, Remember, Sept 11, Worst Day

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.

Topics: Years, Political, Moral, Moral Outrage, Political Discourse

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.

source: - "President Obama's strategy against ISIS remains unclear". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2014.

Topics: Running, Country, Responsibility

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

Topics: People, Fundamentals, Figures

We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts,

Topics: Facts, Minorities, Tiny, Ideologues

I believe America is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances.

Topics: Strong, Believe, America

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.'

Topics: Gratitude, Stars, Military, Different Life, Different Sides

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.

Topics: War, Hero, World

My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.

Topics: Country, 4th Of July, Definitions

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.

Topics: Country, Real, War, Bleaching, Pious

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?

Topics: Mistake, Men, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Anti Vietnam War

I still believe Americas destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.

Topics: Believe, Destiny, Unity

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."

Topics: America, Hey, Benefits, American Business

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.

Topics: Military, War, Struggle, Military Service, Vietnam War

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.

Topics: Order, World, Cooperation

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.

Topics: Men, America, Fire, September 11th, Upstairs

What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.

Topics: Men, Equal Pay, America

I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.

Topics: Real, Believe, Hands, Wmds In Iraq, Gulf War

Our military is overextended. Nine out of 10 active-duty Army divisions are either in Iraq, going to Iraq or have come back from Iraq. One way or the other, they're wrapped up in it.

Topics: Military, Army, Iraq

We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.

Topics: Rights, Race, America, Equal Rights

The fact is that in too many parts of our country, we still have discrimination. And affirmative action is not just something that applies to people of color. Some people have a mistaken view of it in America. It also is with respect to women, it's with respect to other efforts to try to reach out and be inclusive in our country.

Topics: Country, Views, Color

Ask Osama bin Laden if he's better off now than he was four years ago.

Topics: Years, Four, Osama Bin Laden

It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt of the United States in four years than all the way from George Washington to Ronald Reagan put together.

Topics: Years, President, Together, Fiscal Policy

I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.

Topics: Atheist, America, Catholic

I want to fully fund education, No Child Left Behind, special-needs education. And that's how we're going to be more competitive, by making sure our kids are graduating from school and college.

Topics: Children, School, Kids, Special Needs, No Child Left Behind

Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.

Topics: Taken, Action, Slogans

I'm going to be a president who believes in science.

Topics: Believe, President

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

Topics: Real, Waiting, Climate

I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.

Topics: Children, Parent, Shapes, Protect The Environment

You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text,

Topics: Country, Fashion, Century, 19th Century

I will not stop in our efforts to hunt down and kill the terrorists.

Topics: Effort, Down And, Terrorist

I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world, when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and Kennedy and others did it.

Topics: Country, Strong, Alliances

I will never cede the authority of our country or our security to any other nation. I'll never give a veto over American security to any other entity - not a nation, not a country, not an institution.

Topics: Country, Giving, Authority, Veto

There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.

Topics: War, President, United States

I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of the mother under the strictest test of bodily injury to the mother.

Topics: Mother, Abortion, Tests

I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today.

source: - "Text Of Bush-Kerry Debate II (5)" by Jarrett Murphy, www.cbsnews.com. October 8, 2004.

Topics: War, Boys, Catholic

Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.

Topics: People, Harry Truman, Franklin

I don't believe we need a good conservative judge, and I don't believe we need a good liberal judge. I subscribe to the Justice Potter Stewart standard. He was a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. And he said the mark of a good judge, good justice, is that when you're reading their decision, their opinion, you can't tell if it's written by a man or woman, a liberal or a conservative, a Muslim, a Jew or a Christian. You just know you're reading a good judicial decision.

Topics: Christian, Believe, Reading, Supreme Court, Judicial

I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein. And when the president made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him.

Topics: Thinking, Iraq, Support

This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to cover up this administration's failure to provide for small businesses.

Topics: Hurt, Cover Ups, Administration, Disturbing

If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America`s gluttony on fossil fuel.

Topics: Moon, America, Fuel, Fossil Fuel

I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?

Topics: Art, School, Mean, Arctic, Drilling

After Mitt Romney said it would be naive to go into Pakistan to pursue the terrorists, it took President Obama, against the advice of many, to give that order and finally rid this earth of Osama bin Laden. Ask Osama bin Laden if he is better off now than he was four years ago!

Topics: Order, Years, Giving

The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation.

Topics: Real, War, Wmd, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Wmds In Iraq

And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception.

Topics: Country, War, Deception

In the middle of the cavernous cargo hold was a simple, aluminum coffin with a small American flag draped over it. We were bringing another American soldier, just killed, home to his family and final resting place. The starkness of his coffin in the center of the hold, the silence except for the din of the engines, was a real time cold reminder of the consequences of decisions for which we Senators share responsibility.

Topics: Real, Home, Responsibility, Cargo, Aluminum

Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be President, or the credibility to be elected President. No one can doubt or should doubt that we are safer - and Iraq is better - because Saddam Hussein is now behind bars.

Topics: Believe, Iraq, Doubt

If you don't believe...Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn't vote for me.

Topics: Believe, Nuclear, Hussein

In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

Topics: Morning, Winning, Wake Up, American Elections, Win Or Lose

We don't differ with the government on the demands [on Iran], but we totally reject how Bibi is handling it. Bibi sacrificed good relations with the U.S. to keep the status quo on the Palestinians. He poked the [Obama] Administration in the eye on settlements just to appease right-wingers

Topics: Eye, Government, Israel

There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.

Topics: Country, War, Government, Public Trust, Breach

America must always be the world's paramount military power, but we can magnify our power through alliances.

Topics: Military, America, Alliances, Military Power

If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.

Topics: War, Fighting, America

I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

Topics: Believe, America, I Believe

Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama.

Topics: Believe, America, President, American Exceptionalism, Exceptionalism

We cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now.

Topics: Fighting, Thinking, World

I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.

Topics: Nra, Naacp

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

Topics: Real, Class, Middle

In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable country. I refuse to accept the downsizing of the American Dream. I refuse to bet against American entrepreneurial spirit and American ingenuity.The competition's tough, and it requires us to be tougher - tough-minded, never hard hearted.

Topics: Dream, Country, Believe, Entrepreneurial Spirit, Ingenuity

It took President Obama to make America lead like America again.

Topics: America, President, President Obama

Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.

Topics: President, United States, Bakers, Kissinger, New Start

Even as a supporter of Roe v. Wade, I am compelled to acknowledge that the language both sides use on this subject can be unfortunately misleading and unconstructive.... Everyone is worse off for it

Topics: Abortion, Use, Wade, Roe V Wade

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

Topics: Crime, Should, Proportion

We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.

Topics: Games, Battle, Shells

Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.

Topics: Kings, Moving, Passion, Soup Kitchens

When I was in Vietnam I learned a lot about the promises that soldiers make to each other. The Marines have a promise to never leave behind their dead. In this country, as citizen soldiers, we need to make the commitment to each other that we will never leave our veterans behind.

Topics: Country, Commitment, Marine

In case after case, President Bush's actions have made American women less safe and less secure -- on the job and on the streets. As president, I will put American government and our legal system back on the side of women. I will stand up for their security, ensure their safety, support their rights, and guarantee their dignity. This nation can do no less.

Topics: Jobs, Rights, Government

We have to recognize that there is a strong, fresh wind blowing, powered by these new information technologies. It will be increasingly difficult for dictators to impose their will through sheer brutality.

Topics: Strong, Technology, Wind, Wind Blowing

We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.

Topics: Wall, Block, Promise

American can do better, and help is on the way.

Topics: Way, Helping

I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.

Topics: Country, Men, President

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

Topics: War, Issues, Life And Death

I've often said that global climate change is an issue where no one has the luxury of being "half-pregnant." You either are or you aren't. And so it is with climate change. You either understand and accept the science - or you don't. Folks this isn't a cafeteria where you can pick and choose and accept the science that tells us what is happening, but then reject the science that warns us what will happen.

Topics: Luxury, Issues, Climate

I am sympathetic to developing countries' concerns: because of our emissions it's their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it's their fields that turn to desert.

Topics: Country, Desert, Developing Countries

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

Topics: Fire, Action, Excuse, Playing With Fire

These guys [Republicans] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen.

Topics: Lying, Guy, Groups

We've been waiting since 1918 for the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series, and ... if I had a choice between the White House and the World Series this year, I'm going to take the White House. How's that?

Topics: Winning, Boston, Years, World Series, Boston Red Sox

I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.

Topics: Energy, Massachusetts, Growing, Energy Efficiency

Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn't. I don't want abortion. Abortion should be the rarest thing in the world. I am actually personally opposed to abortion. But I don't believe that I have a right to take what is an article of faith to me and legislate it to other people. That's not how it works in America.

Topics: Believe, Mean, America, Pro Abortion

Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.

Topics: Leadership, Country, Home

And now that the Greatest Generation is getting older, I think it is the responsibility of all Americans to make sure we do our part for America's seniors. You have earned the best of America -- and we need to make sure you get the protection and health care you deserve.

Topics: Senior, Responsibility, Thinking, Greatest Generation

My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation that achieved victory in World War II. This was the generation that saved the world from fascism, came home and built the great American middle class, led the way in the civil rights movement, protected our environment, and created great programs like Medicare.

Topics: Dad, War, Home, Great American, Greatest Generation

This President has made, I regret to say, a colossal error of judgment. and judgment is what we look for in the president of the President of the United States of America.

Topics: Regret, Errors, America

And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.

Topics: Family Values, Values

I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives.

Topics: Real, Artist, People

I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy.

Topics: Jobs, Thinking, Special

We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence, an obligation to guarantee that Saddam Hussein cannot ignore the United Nations. He cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.

Topics: Guarantees, Hussein, Weapons, Horrific

If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act.

Topics: Hands, Order, Community, Security Council

There is some schedule showing what you (need) to do to get Iraqis standing up and defending themselves which is now suddenly beginning to happen, so there are some signs of progress.

Topics: Progress, Needs, Schedules

I'm sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did. I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium.

Topics: War, Tired, White

We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.

Topics: Simple, People, Attention

So my judgment is that Syria will move; Syria will change, as it embraces a legitimate relationship with the United States and the West and economic opportunity that comes with it and the participation that comes with it.

Topics: Moving, Opportunity, United States

I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America. I'm running for president and I'm running to uphold the Constitution, which has a strict separation of church and state.

Topics: Running, America, Atheism

Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.

Topics: Country, Children, Growing Up, Good Citizen, Gun Violence

We need to put our faith and trust in the people on the frontlines -- and back it up with real resources. We need to make sure first defenders have the gear and support they need, and the benefits and protections they've earned. With new technology and ingenuity, by doing more to sustain our first defenders and calling on Americans to do more for their country, we can make our country stronger, safer, and more secure.

Topics: Country, Real, Technology, Frontline

Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream values scorned by a White House that puts privilege first.

Topics: Dream, America, Class, Scorned, Main Street

Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.

Topics: Fighting, Class, Special

I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will provide middle class payroll tax relief to get money in the pockets of workers who will spend it, not more tax giveaways for those at the top to stimulate the economy in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. A President who will index the minimum wage to inflation and raise it from a 30 year low, not increase the tax burden on the middle class and those struggling to join it.

Topics: Jobs, Real, Struggle, Cayman Islands, Economic Security

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

Topics: Middle East, East, Terrorism

It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism. If so, the only exit strategy is victory, this is our common mission and the world's cause.

Topics: Military, Iraq, Victory

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

Topics: War, Thinking, Gone, Vote For Me

I just want to assure you that both President Bush and I have very firm alibis.

Topics: President, Want, Alibis

Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But regime change in and of itself is not sufficient justification for going to war--particularly unilaterally--unless regime change is the only way to disarm Iraq of the weapons of mass destruction pursuant to the United Nations resolution.

Topics: War, Iraq, Support, Going To War, Regime Change

Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real...

Topics: Real, America, Hussein, Miscalculations, Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Iraq may not be the war on terror itself, but it is critical to the outcome of the war on terror, and therefore any advance in Iraq is an advance forward in that...

Topics: War, Iraq, May

I want to start by saying something nice about President Bush. Of all the presidents we've had with the last name of Bush, his economic plan ranks in the top two.

Topics: Nice, Names, Two, Politics Funny

I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.

Topics: Political, Strategy, Polls, Polling

Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.

Topics: Organization, Political, Agendas, Arafat, Political Agendas

I've been having problems with the right wing lately.

Topics: Wings, Problem, Right Wing

My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush

Topics: Believe, Tired, America, Trickle Down, Trickle Down Economics

I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.

Topics: President, Baghdad, Development

George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them. ... We were misled about weapons of mass destruction.

Topics: War, Iraq, Weapons, Going To War

President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.

Topics: Upset, Black, President, President Clinton

You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.

Topics: Daughter, Son, Armor

I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me.

Topics: Home, Two, Duty, Delta, Patrolling

You'd be amazed at the number of people who want to introduce themselves to you in the men's room. It's the most bizarre part of this entire thing.

Topics: Men, Numbers, People

American soldiers [are] going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the ñ of ñ the historical customs, religious customs.

Topics: Religious, Children, Kids

Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.

source: - "We need to make America once again a beacon in the world". John Kerry's speech to the democratic national convention, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2004.

Topics: Fighting, People, Champion

Palestinians need to stop the incitement. They need to stop that kind of activity. But at the same time, there is a need to see the broader conflict here and understand that there has to be some kind of ultimately negotiated political track that's going to resolve the difference between Palestinians and Israelis.

source: - Source: www.npr.org

Topics: Differences, Track, Political, Incitement

When the nations of the world look upon the United States, they see a country which has achieved what they would all like to become one day. Whether it is in the field of science, art, music, agriculture, politics, economics or war, the United States is the leader.

source: - Source: www.counterpunch.org

Topics: Country, Art, War

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

Topics: Optimism, Rising, Politics

America has everything most countries envy. A Constitution which is the treasure of mankind, a strong military, natural resources of every kind. Above all, as Tocqueville said, a good people, which is what makes us great.

source: - Source: www.counterpunch.org

Topics: Country, Strong, Military

There's an agreement that Syria should be a unified country, united; that it needs to be secular; that ISIL needs to be taken on; and that there needs to be a managed transition, but there is a difference obviously in what that means and what that outcome may or may not be.

source: - "Interview With Nicolle Wallace, Mike Barnicle, Mark Halperin, Richard Haass, and Katty Kay of MSNBC's Morning Joe". 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2015.

Topics: Country, Taken, Mean, Isil

What we do right now, today, matters.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Matter, Today, Right Now

America is the one that leads the effort to make sure the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea is protected.

Topics: Sea, America, Effort

Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.

source: - "Kerry: We are here to make America stronger", www.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.

Topics: Heart, America, Challenges

If the threat is jihadism - and it is - and the threat is the destruction of Syria so that all of these refugees are swamping into Europe and changing the whole character and politics of Europe, this is the time to unite to find a way out.

source: - Interview With Nicolle Wallace, Mike Barnicle, Mark Halperin, Richard Haass, and Katty Kay of MSNBC's Morning Joe, 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2015.

Topics: Character, Europe, Way

What Donald Trump is doing is serving the polluters and serving a narrow group of ideological interests. That's not leadership. That's abdication of responsibility, and this step does not make America first. It makes America last.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Responsibility, Interest, Ideological

I'm motivated by my passion for our basic values, protecting our interests, and for protecting the future.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Passion, Motivated, Interest

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.

Topics: Sports, Play, Grace

I met with many of - a number of [Syrian] refugees in Berlin the other day, and I was struck by how educated, intelligent, and patriotic they are. They want to go back. They love their country. And there are so many of them still in Jordan and in refugee camps in Lebanon and in Turkey, that if you could create the climate within which they could begin to come back, I believe there is such a history of secularism within Syria, even tolerance within Syria, that if we can deal with ISIL, yes. That's the key. And with ISIL there, not a chance.

Topics: Country, Believe, Patriotic, Isil, Refugee Camps

America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

Topics: America, Issues, Environmental

It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.

Topics: Certain, One Thing

You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Responsibility, Acceptance, Common

We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.

source: - "Calls grow to arm Ukraine, as European leaders scramble for last-ditch peace plan". www.foxnews.com. February 5, 2015.

Topics: Change, War, Russia, Proxy

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

Topics: Rap, Anger, Thinking

I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.

source: - Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire, www.foxnews.com. January 22, 2004.

Topics: War, Jail, People

That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is always hope.

Topics: Challenges, Matter, Faces

I do think that it's really important for leaders of countries to be very clear and careful in the statements they make because their words are weighed extremely carefully by other countries, and you have to create a continuity of seriousness and of credibility in order to be able to be taken seriously and get things done.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Country, Taken, Thinking

We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global economy. And this much is certain: America will not have national security without economic security.

Topics: America, Challenges, Faces, Economic Security

Assassination, kidnappings and suicide attacks have become too much the standard operating procedure in the Islamic world. So much so that the name of Islam itself has been diminished in the eyes of many people. It is the responsibility of all of us, and particularly those in the Islamic world who care about their religion, to rescue it from its increased association with violence.

source: - Source: www.counterpunch.org

Topics: Suicide, Islamic, Eye, Kidnapping

We will fight anyone who wishes to impose a totalitarian system upon a free society, and we will always prevail. But we will not do so with a fear-stricken administration which seeks to deprive us of freedoms in the name of 'defending' us from the terrorists, who also seek to deprive us of our freedoms.

source: - Source: www.counterpunch.org

Topics: Fighting, Wish, Terrorist

Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.

source: - John Kerry’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

Topics: Years, Four, Osama Bin Laden

I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it.

source: - Remarks at Marshall University, Huntington,W.V., 16 Mar. 2004

Topics: Crazy, Vote, Billions, Flip Flops

We do have to take the long-term view. And long term, the question to ask ourselves is whether America should attack others pre-emptively, whether she should embroil herself in wars far away from our soil, and try to bring democracy by force to the rest of the world.

source: - Source: www.counterpunch.org

Topics: War, Long, Democracy

We have staring us in the face here an enormous opportunity to actually find a way forward to have peace and stability in Syria, to reconstitute it. It'll take years to do that. This will not be an easy fight even with concerted coordination with respect to ISIL. But it is far more doable with that kind of approach than otherwise.

source: - "Interview With Nicolle Wallace, Mike Barnicle, Mark Halperin, Richard Haass, and Katty Kay of MSNBC's Morning Joe". 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2015.

Topics: Fighting, Opportunity, Years, Isil

What we Americans need to do is respect that incredible blessing that we have as a nation and make sure that we are leading in the best ways possible.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Blessing, Needs, Way

Jesus did not help just the sick who could afford to pay for it.

Topics: Jesus, Sick, Pay

I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.

Topics: Troops, World, United Nations

It's likely that people will say we're all interested in destroying - ISIL is a threat to everybody. There isn't one country in the region that doesn't despise what ISIL stands for and is doing and that doesn't want to eliminate them.

source: - "Interview With Nicolle Wallace, Mike Barnicle, Mark Halperin, Richard Haass, and Katty Kay of MSNBC's Morning Joe". 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2015.

Topics: Country, People, Want, Isil

I supported Israel 100 percent as a senator for 28 years and I've supported it 100 percent as Secretary of State.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Israel, Years, States

We don't need a president who just says, "Gentlemen, start your engines." We need a president who says, America, let's start our economy and put people back to work.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: People, Gentleman, President

And whatever our faith - whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.

source: - "We need to make America once again a beacon in the world", www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2004.

Topics: Country, Character, Giving

I think, all in all, the Obama administration and what President Obama has focused on has lived up to our need to protect American interests, to live our values and assert our values, and to stand up for future generations.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Thinking, President, Protect

And if [Vladimir Putin] does fight ISIL alone, how does it work out for Russia to have sided with Assad, sided with Iran, sided with Hizballah, when they're trying to reach out to the rest of the Sunni world in the region? That's not a good equation for Russia.

Topics: Fighting, Russia, Iran, Isil, Assad

If you want to be a Jewish state and you want to remain a democracy, you have to have a two-state solution.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Two, Democracy, Want

I think that too far, too much, to a greater degree than is anywhere near appropriate, America and our politics are being governed by more and more powerful interests, by fewer and fewer people in the sense of the amount of money that has controlled access and other kinds of things.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Powerful, Thinking, America, Fewer

What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back... [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.

Topics: Fighting, Facts, Climate, Misinterpreted

The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a presumed 'window of vulnerability,' which we now know not to exist.

Topics: Military, Administration, Assumption

We are being Americans when we hold our government to account. We are being false to our troops when we send them to a needless war, betraying their trust when we shortchange them on protective equipment, and cheating them when we silently cut their benefits.

source: - Source: www.counterpunch.org

Topics: Cheating, War, Cutting, Our Troops

Just the fact that we can't pass budgets in our Congress, just the fact that we are gridlocked in our own democracy, the fact that everybody who travels can see that we're not investing in our airports, in our rail, in our infrastructure and so forth, people are noticing a United States that is not getting the job done in some ways.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Jobs, Airports, People

We still have a lot of work to do to protect our own democracy.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Democracy, Protect, Stills

If you don't believe ... Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn't vote for me.

source: - "War issue presents challenge for Dem candidates" by Jill Lawrence, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 11, 2003.

Topics: Believe, Nuclear, Hussein, Vote For Me

I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Thinking, Democracy, World

I'm going to be honest with you - I don't know a lot about Cuba's healthcare system. Is it a government-run system?

Topics: Running, Government, Dumb, Stupid Liberal

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Horse, Water, Drink

People talk about [Bashar] Assad running Syria. He doesn't control his own country. He's down to about 20, 25 percent of the country. What is this fiction that he is somehow the only person who can save Syria? There's - with Assad there, there is no Syria. So that's what the Iranians and the Russians need to really begin to focus in on.

Topics: Running, Country, People

America that has done more to support Israel than any other country cannot be true to our own values if we allow a viable two-state solution to be destroyed before our own eyes.

source: - Source: www.npr.org

Topics: Country, Eye, America

I believe it is both unwise and even wrong to interfere in the affairs of other nations. Indeed, if we are honest, we will see that this is one of the reasons for 9-11.

source: - Source: www.counterpunch.org

Topics: Believe, Honest, Affair

The agreement is fundamentally that we want to try to resolve this. The agreement is that ISIL is a threat to everybody, and we need to come together to find a way to fight ISIL. The agreement is that we want to save Syria, keep it unified, keep it secular. So surely in those very fundamental principles on which we could agree.

source: - Interview With Nicolle Wallace, Mike Barnicle, Mark Halperin, Richard Haass, and Katty Kay of MSNBC's Morning Joe, 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2015.

Topics: Fighting, Agreement, Trying, Isil, Fundamental Principles

I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Thinking, Law, Order

An old American patriot described today’s situation very well. As America fought for its independence, Benjamin Franklin said, “we must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

source: - "Sen. Kerry says 'amateur hour is over'" by Ben Geman, thehill.com. December 16, 2009.

Topics: America, Independence, Together

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

Topics: Children, Vietnam, Killing

America is the most powerful economy in the world. We're an $18-trillion-dollar economy.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Powerful, America, Dollars

I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.

Topics: Giving, Care, Plans

Those localized efforts take a long time and they don't deal with the larger issue of ISIL and the question of what you're going to do to really have a solution here. We have to save Syria.

source: - "Interview With Nicolle Wallace, Mike Barnicle, Mark Halperin, Richard Haass, and Katty Kay of MSNBC's Morning Joe". 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2015.

Topics: Issues, Long, Effort, Isil

Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.

source: - "Bush, Kerry debate domestic policies". The final debate between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry at Arizona State University, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.

Topics: Country, Responsibility, Order, Fiscal Responsibility

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

Topics: Jobs, Technology, Reality, Nafta, Low Level

America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: America, Russia, Effort

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.

source: - "Live From". www.cnn.com. September 29, 2004.

Topics: Thinking, Honor, Belief, Personal Beliefs

As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.

Topics: Jobs, Fighting, Years, Cornered, Warlords

America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Country, America, Trying

The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.

Topics: Country, Sacrifice, Political, Bipartisanship, American Spirit

In a few years, you should be able to plug your American-made plug-in hybrid into the outlet in your garage, so that you never use a drop of gas on your daily commute. This won't happen overnight, but I promise you, it is closer than you think.

Topics: Thinking, Years, Promise

Three-quarters of [Bashar Assad] country is displaced. It's in Jordan, it's in Lebanon, it's in Turkey, and in the desert. The threat is that those people in the desert and others could become the next acolytes of ISIL if we don't find a way to join together to go after ISIL.

Topics: Country, Turkeys, People, Isil, Assad

You might not see climate change as an immediate threat to your job, your community, or your families," Kerry said. "But let me tell you, it is." He continued, "climate change is directly related to the potential of greater conflict and greater instability. I'm telling you that there are people in parts of the world - in Africa today, they fight each other over water. They kill each over it. And if glaciers are melting and there's less water available and more people, that is a challenge we have to face.

Topics: Jobs, Fighting, People