355 Quotes by John F. Kerry

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.

It’s time we framed every question – every issue – not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but what’s in it for all of us?

We’re in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There’s a shell game going on like I’ve never seen before.

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.

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.

I personally didn’t see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. However, I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions.

I’ve been having problems with the right wing lately.

I can’t take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.

That is what Americans do. We face a challenge – no matter how great – because we know that on the other side there is always hope.