John F. Kerry Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• 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

  Military, War, Struggle

• My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation that achieved victory in World War II. This was the generation that saved the world from fascism, came home and built the great American middle class, led the way in the civil rights movement, protected our environment, and created great programs like Medicare.

  John F. Kerry

  Dad, War, Home

• 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

• There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Issues, Life And Death

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

• Iraq may not be the war on terror itself, but it is critical to the outcome of the war on terror, and therefore any advance in Iraq is an advance forward in that.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Iraq, May

• I believe that this president [George W. Bush], regrettably, rushed us into a war, made decisions about foreign policy, pushed alliances away. And, as a result, America is now bearing this extraordinary burden where we are not as safe as we ought to be.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Believe, America

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.

  John F. Kerry

  Change, War, Russia

  "Calls grow to arm Ukraine, as European leaders scramble for last-ditch peace plan". www.foxnews.com. February 5, 2015.

• Our cause in the war on terror isn't helped when we have army officers like Lieutenant General William Boykin speaking in evangelical churches and claiming this as some sort of battle for the Christian religion. That's wrong. That's un-American.

  John F. Kerry

  Christian, War, Army

• 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

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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

• So we can do a better job of homeland security. I can do a better job of waging a smarter, more effective war on terror and guarantee that we will go after the terrorists. I will hunt them down, and we'll kill them, we'll capture them. We'll do whatever is necessary to be safe.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, War, Guarantees That

  "Bush, Kerry debate domestic policies". The debate at Arizona State University, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.

• War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, War, Intelligence Gathering

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I think that for many of us, the years of the Civil Rights movements - Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy running for president in 1968 to end the war and so forth - these were defining moment in terms of trying to hold government accountable and have a level of responsibility and truth-telling.

  John F. Kerry

  Running, Kings, War

  Source: www.wbur.org

• If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Thinking, Gone

• The military's job is to win the war. A president's job is to win the peace.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Military, War

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Glossed over the disastrous war and its multibillion-dollar price tag and implied again that our presence in Iraq is somehow improving the situation in that chaotic and turbulent country. The Congress must stand up against Bush's plan to escalate the war.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, War, Price Tag

• [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.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, War, Believe

• The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, War, Mass Destruction

• 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.

• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Jail, People

  Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire, www.foxnews.com. January 22, 2004.

• When the nations of the world look upon the United States, they see a country which has achieved what they would all like to become one day. Whether it is in the field of science, art, music, agriculture, politics, economics or war, the United States is the leader.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Art, War

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Fighting, America

• There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.

  John F. Kerry

  War, President, United States

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

• I will never conduct a war or start a war because we want to; the United States of America should only go to war because we have to. And if you live by that guidance, you'll never have veterans throwing away their medals or standing up in protest.

  John F. Kerry

  War, America, Want

  "CNN Daybreak", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2004.

• What remains unchanged is the principle, which is that we do not launch wars without overwelming reasons, and overwhelming alliances, and without overwhelming force.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Reason, Overwhelming

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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