John F. Kerry Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

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

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Order, Phony

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

• 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

  Country, Fashion, Century

  "Kerry condemns Russia's 'incredible act of aggression' in Ukraine" by Will Dunham, www.reuters.com. March 2, 2014.

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Children, Growing Up

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Running, Country, Responsibility

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

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Real, Technology

• Unlike George Bush and his friends at the big oil companies, I'm going to work for a real energy policy for this country that decreases America's dependence on foreign oil and helps lower the costs to American families.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Real, Oil

  "White House, Saudis: No election deal on oil". www.cnn.com. April 19, 2004.

• 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

  Country, Real, War

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

  John F. Kerry

  Country, 4th Of July, Definitions

• 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...

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Desert, Developing Countries

  John F. Kerry's Speech at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, archive.boston.com. December 16, 2009.

• The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Real, America

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Responsibility, Order

  "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.

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Views, Color

  "Text Of Bush-Kerry Debate III (3)". www.cbsnews.com. October 13, 2004.

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Leadership, Country, Home

  "Edward Snowden's interview: 10 things we learned" by Catherine E. Shoichet, www.cnn.com. May 29, 2014.

• The fact is that you literally, by definition, cannot have a Jewish state and a democratic state and have a whole bunch of Palestinians in it who are living under military rule while the rest of the country is living under civil rule, and they have different rights and different - it's just not a democracy.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Military, Rights

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Believe, Patriotic

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Dream, Country, Believe

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Giving, Authority

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

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

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Vote, Portions

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. January 30, 2005.

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Running, Country, People

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Character, Giving

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

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Strong, Alliances

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Violence has to end. And Israelis have a bright to defend themselves against any violence that is attacking innocent people with a knife in the old city in Jerusalem or elsewhere. No country should be under siege like that.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Knives, Cities

  Source: www.npr.org

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

  John F. Kerry

  Country, America, Trying

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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

  Country, Challenges

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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