355 Quotes by John F. Kerry

You just don’t invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!

I don’t know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that’s state of the art?

Ask Osama bin Laden if he’s better off now than he was four years ago.

What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That’s not right in America.

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

We deserve a president of the United States who will write laws for all Americans, not for campaign contributors. And I intend to be a president for all Americans who takes back the flag of our country because it doesn’t belong to any party, doesn’t belong to any president.

It’s hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can’t vote and doesn’t vote.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it’s too often the art of the probable – tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

I’m for ethanol, and I think it’s a very important partial ingredient of the overall mix of alternative and renewable fuels we ought to commit to.