John Kerry Quotes

• Like father, like son, one term and you’re done.

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• No young American in uniform should ever be held hostage to America’s dependence on oil from the Middle East.

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• Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama’s new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.

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• The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

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• It took President Obama to make America lead like America again.

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• Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama.

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• President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care and concern and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says thank you to its most exceptional men and women.

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• I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.

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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.

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• We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.

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• I’m fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there’s a lot of poetry in it. There’s a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you’d better listen to it pretty carefully, ’cause it’s important.

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• 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.

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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.

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• 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.

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• Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

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  Tags in Problem Solving, Climate, School, Change

• I still believe Americas destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.

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• Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans are not. It is time to speak again and stand again for the ideal that in the richest nation ever on this planet, it is wrong for 41 million Americans, most of them in working families, to worry at night and wake up in the morning without the basic protection of health insurance.

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• So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, “What if?”

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• We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war’s nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action, and action in our nation’s capital.

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  Tags in Troops, Action, Military

• The courage and bravery of our young men and women fighting overseas continues to inspire all of us, and indeed inspire the free world and those yearning for freedom.

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  Tags in Freedom, Bravery, Courage

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Birth:	11th December, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

John Forbes Kerry was born in Colorado, USA. He is an American Democratic politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. He served as the United States Senator from Massachusetts (1985-2013). He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political science. For that US Navy service, he was awarded combat medals that include the Silver Star Medal, Bronze Star Medal, and three Purple Heart Medals. After receiving a JD degree from Boston College Law School, he worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Massachusetts. He served as Lieutenant Governor under Michael Dukakis from 1983 to 1985. He served as Chair of the Senate Small Business Committee and Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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