355 Quotes by John F. Kerry

Jesus did not help just the sick who could afford to pay for it.

You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.

I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.

The Future Belongs to Freedom, Not to Fear

I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me.

When I was in Vietnam I learned a lot about the promises that soldiers make to each other. The Marines have a promise to never leave behind their dead. In this country, as citizen soldiers, we need to make the commitment to each other that we will never leave our veterans behind.

We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts,

For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.

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.