John F. Kerry Quotes - Page 5

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• 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.

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• America is the most powerful economy in the world. We're an $18-trillion-dollar economy.

  John F. Kerry

  Powerful, America, Dollars

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 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.

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• I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.

  John F. Kerry

  Thinking, Law, Order

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 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

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• 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

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• In a few years, you should be able to plug your American-made plug-in hybrid into the outlet in your garage, so that you never use a drop of gas on your daily commute. This won't happen overnight, but I promise you, it is closer than you think.

  John F. Kerry

  Thinking, Years, Promise

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• America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures.

  John F. Kerry

  America, Russia, Effort

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Fighting, Years

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• I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.

  John F. Kerry

  Thinking, Honor, Belief

  "Live From". www.cnn.com. September 29, 2004.

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• 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

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• 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

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• The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Sacrifice, Political

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• You'd be amazed at the number of people who want to introduce themselves to you in the men's room. It's the most bizarre part of this entire thing.

  John F. Kerry

  Men, Numbers, People

  "Kerry Appears on 'Daily Show'". www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2004.

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• I mean does Israel want a third Intifada?

  John F. Kerry

  Mean, Israel, Doe

  "John Kerry warns of third intifada if Israeli-Palestinian talks fail" by Hannah Strange, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 8, 2013.

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• 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

  Fall, Airplane, Fighting

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• As the saying goes, I have big heels to fill.

  John F. Kerry

  Bigs, Heels

  "Kerry: 'I have huge heels to fill'" by Elise Labott, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2013.

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• I'm proud of my medals. I always was proud of them.

  John F. Kerry

  Proud, Medal

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• 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

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• I accept that friends of ours have decided that the President's non-strike has somehow impacted perceptions of us. But I believe they are dead wrong and I think the critics are dead wrong, and here's why. The President [Barack Obama] made his decision to strike. He announced his decision to strike publicly. And the purpose of the strike was to get the chemical weapons out of Syria. That's the purpose.

  John F. Kerry

  Believe, Thinking, Decision

  "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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• Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land and water polluted. They were shocked when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was polluted so badly it caught fire. And on one great day 20 million Americans marched all across this land. Politicians had no choice but to take notice.

  John F. Kerry

  Tired, Fire, Air

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• 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.

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• 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

  Military, Kuwait, Goal

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• Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must be done.

  John F. Kerry

  Change, Impact, Climate

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• 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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