John F. Kerry Quotes

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

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.

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

I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

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

The problems of health care can be solved if we stop giving tax cuts to those who have the most, and start making health care affordable for those working harder and harder for too little.

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?

At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.

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.

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but what’s in it for all of us?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

You cannot bring peace in Syria as long as [Bashar] Assad is, in fact, there.

Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.

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

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.

It's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote.

If you can resolve this transition of [Bashar] Assad, that is absolutely possible, but you have to have a clarity for everybody about the way forward.

Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.

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.

[Bashar] Assad has made a series of choices ever since then that is literally destroying his country.

America deserves a real discussion about real policy.

The Russians need to understand that you cannot have peace [in Syria] unless you resolve the question of Sunni buy-in.

War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.

The world has to save Syria. I mean, this has dramatic implications for the entire region, globally.

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

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.

I'm not going to put my energy into focusing on things that are hypothetical that we don't know.