Democracy relies on free speech. Yes, say anything you want, but it relies even more on the speech being truthful. It is the truth, after all, that sets us free. John F. Kerry More Quotes by John F. Kerry More Quotes From John F. Kerry 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 tiredfireair I do think that it's really important for leaders of countries to be very clear and careful in the statements they make because their words are weighed extremely carefully by other countries, and you have to create a continuity of seriousness and of credibility in order to be able to be taken seriously and get things done. John F. Kerry takencountrythinking America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming. John F. Kerry environmentalissuesamerica It took President Obama to make America lead like America again. John F. Kerry president-obamapresidentamerica In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans. John F. Kerry wake-upwinningmorning 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 decisionbelievethinking We cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now. John F. Kerry fightingshould-havethinking America must always be the world's paramount military power. But we can magnify our power through alliances. John F. Kerry alliancesmilitaryamerica 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. John F. Kerry fightingwaramerica Israel gets more than half of all the military purchasing assistance that America gives to all the nations in the world. John F. Kerry israelmilitaryamerica The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation. John F. Kerry mass-destructionrealwar Even as a supporter of Roe v. Wade, I am compelled to acknowledge that the language both sides use on this subject can be unfortunately misleading and unconstructive.... Everyone is worse off for it. John F. Kerry wadeabortionuse We don't differ with the government on the demands [on Iran], but we totally reject how Bibi is handling it. Bibi sacrificed good relations with the U.S. to keep the status quo on the Palestinians. He poked the [Obama] Administration in the eye on settlements just to appease right-wingers John F. Kerry governmentisraeleye I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein. And when the president made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him. John F. Kerry iraqsupportthinking Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be President. John F. Kerry iraqdoubtbelieve It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism. If so, the only exit strategy is victory, this is our common mission and the world's cause. John F. Kerry iraqvictorymilitary It is the duty of any president, in the final analysis, to defend this nation and dispel the security threat. Saddam Hussein has brought military action upon himself by refusing for 12 years to comply with the mandates of the United Nations. The brave and capable men and women of our armed forces and those who are with us will quickly, I know, remove him once and for all as a threat to his neighbors, to the world, and to his own people, and I support their doing so. John F. Kerry militarymenyears What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States. John F. Kerry united-statesiraqchange I'm not going to put my energy into focusing on things that are hypothetical that we don't know. John F. Kerry hypotheticalenergyknows 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 impactclimatechange
