John F. Kerry Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• 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.

• Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

  John F. Kerry

  Art, Imagination, Optimism

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Technology, Reality

• Nobody's interests are served by what's happening in Syria today. It's a catastrophe. It's the worst human catastrophe since World War II. And, as I said just now, it represents a failure of the entire international community to come to grips with solving it.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Community, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Believe, Iraq, Doubt

  "The Capital Gang" with Mark Shields, www.cnn.com. December 20, 2003.

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Kings, Moving, School

• 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".

  John F. Kerry

  America, Today, Hey

  "The Third Bush-Kerry Presidential Debate". www.debates.org. October 13, 2004.

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Boys, Catholic

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

• 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.”

  John F. Kerry

  America, Independence, Together

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

• What we do right now, today, matters.

  John F. Kerry

  Matter, Today, Right Now

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Fighting, People

• We achieved a deal with the Russians that didn't wind up in two days of strikes that would have sent a, quote, "message," but would not have removed the weapons. We struck a deal to get all of the declared weapons out of Syria. Never before in a conflict has that ever happened, that during the conflict weapons of mass destruction are taken out of the zone of conflict. And thank God we did that, because if we hadn't done that, today ISIL would have those chemical weapons in large parts of the country.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Taken, Two

  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.

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