Quote

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

John F. Kerry

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
Aircraft Pilot
Diplomat
Lawyer
Naval Officer
Peace Activist
Politician
Aurora
Colorado
John Forbes Kerry
Kerry
John F. Kerry
Rising
Task
Seek
Meet
Nation
Challenges
Country
Confront
Great
Defining

More quotes by John F. Kerry

Image
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.
John F. Kerry
Image
You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.
John F. Kerry
Image
Reduce US military presence in Iraq and bring in neighbors.
John F. Kerry
Image
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.
John F. Kerry
Image
A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.
John F. Kerry
Image
We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.
John F. Kerry
Image
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.
John F. Kerry
Image
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.
John F. Kerry
Image
The military's job is to win the war. A president's job is to win the peace.
John F. Kerry
Image
Thank you very much for contacting me to express your support for the actions of President Bush in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. From the outset of the invasion, I have strongly and unequivocally supported President Bush's response to the crisis and the policy goals he has established with our military deployment in the Persian Gulf.
John F. Kerry
Image
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.
John F. Kerry
Image
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.
John F. Kerry
Image
I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.
John F. Kerry
Image
I mean, all of these things that [Bashar Assad] has done, there's no way even if President Obama wanted to just play along that you could actually achieve peace, because there are 65 million Sunni in between Baghdad and the border of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, who will never, ever again accept Assad as a member - as a legitimate leader.
John F. Kerry
Image
America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.
John F. Kerry
Image
War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.
John F. Kerry
Image
You cannot bring peace in Syria as long as [Bashar] Assad is, in fact, there.
John F. Kerry
Image
I think that all of the cyber attacks that are taking place, but particularly this - the Russian one, had a profound impact on the American system, on our political process, on our - it invaded the space of our election. The releasing on a regular basis of one party's stolen emails had an impact, and I think that other things also had an impact.
John F. Kerry
Image
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
Image
Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.
John F. Kerry