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  • I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. However, I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions.

  • 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.

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

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

    Men   Equal Pay   America  
    "Bush, Kerry debate domestic policies". The debate at Arizona State University, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.
  • 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.

    War   Jail   People  
    Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire, www.foxnews.com. January 22, 2004.
  • 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.

  • Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.

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

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

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • [Bashar] Assad himself has said on several occasions recently that if the people of Syria don't believe I should be there in the future, then I would step - I would leave. He has said it. He has, on occasion, hinted that he wants a political settlement of one kind or another. I think it's up to his supporters, his strongest supporters, to make it clear to him that if you're going to save Syria, Assad has made a set of choices - barrel bombing children, gassing his people, torturing his people, engaging in starvation as a tactic of war.

    Children   War   Believe  
  • 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.

    Daughter   Son   Armor  
    "Kerry: We are here to make America stronger", www.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.
  • We need a leader who has a sense of balance, an understanding of the ebb and flow of history and a sense of our country's unique place in it. This is a foreign policy debate, and you cannot conduct foreign policy without a sense of what we are fighting for. And any President who can reduce the conduct of this country's affairs to a morning's attack by a bunch of demented fascists does not, in my view, understand what this great nation is all about.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • What is happening is policy in Israel is being driven by the settlers who don't support a two-state solution, who want their settlements to prevent the possibility of two states. They openly say that.

    Two   Israel   Support  
    Source: www.wbur.org
  • 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.

    Character   Europe   Way  
    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.
  • Strong leadership demands more than the willingness to use force. It means directing the use of the right tools at the right time for the right purpose and the right cause.

    Strong   Mean   Tools  
  • 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.

    John F. Kerry's Speech to the floor of the Senate, Congressional Record, November 9, 1997.
  • 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.

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

    Regret   America   Errors  
    "Would a Kerry win increase risk of terror?". Debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry at the University of Miami, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2004.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • If Russia is there [in Syria] alone fighting them [ISIL], guess what? Russia becomes the target and Russia starts seeing - who knows - MANPADs will find their way in there, airplanes will fall out of the sky. They will become vilified. They'll become the new magnet, together with Assad, for the jihadis.

  • 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.

    "Bush jokes about search for WMD, but it's no laughing matter for critics" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2004.
  • 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?

    Mistake   Men   Vietnam  
    Testimony before Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 22 Apr. 1971
  • I supported Israel 100 percent as a senator for 28 years and I've supported it 100 percent as Secretary of State.

    Israel   Years   States  
    Source: www.wbur.org
  • 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?

  • 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.

    "President Obama's strategy against ISIS remains unclear". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2014.
  • No one is going to question my commitment to the defence of our nation. I don't know what it is these Republicans, who didn't serve in any war, have against those of us who are Democrats who did.

  • 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.

    War   Long   Democracy  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • When President Bush sees America, he sees only a military superpower. I see a moral and idealistic beacon. Mr. Bush may talk about democracy all he wants, but it is not democracy to wilfully disdain and heap scorn on world opinion. We do not command moral leadership by starting pre-emptive wars.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
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    John F. Kerry

    • Born: December 11, 1943
    • Occupation: United States Secretary of State