John F. Kerry Quotes About United Nations

Quotes about: United Nations

• Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But regime change in and of itself is not sufficient justification for going to war--particularly unilaterally--unless regime change is the only way to disarm Iraq of the weapons of mass destruction pursuant to the United Nations resolution.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

• It is the duty of any president, in the final analysis, to defend this nation and dispel the security threat. Saddam Hussein has brought military action upon himself by refusing for 12 years to comply with the mandates of the United Nations. The brave and capable men and women of our armed forces and those who are with us will quickly, I know, remove him once and for all as a threat to his neighbors, to the world, and to his own people, and I support their doing so.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, Men, Years

• 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

  Mass Destruction, Guarantees That, Hussein

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

• I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations.

  John F. Kerry

  Use, Hussein, Resolution

  "Tricky John Kerry" by Robert Novak, www.cnn.com. September 5, 2003.

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

  John F. Kerry

  Troops, World, United Nations

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