Skip to content

America Quotes by John F. Kerry

41 America quotes by John F. Kerry

All America quotes John F. Kerry’s page

John F. Kerry highlights that discrimination still exists across the country and that military strength must be paired with strong alliances. He notes the importance of listening to soldiers in distant deserts and caring for seniors as the nation ages.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

America is the most powerful economy in the world. We're an $18-trillion-dollar economy.

Image

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

Image

America deserves a real discussion about real policy.

Image

I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.

Image

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

Image

The Paris Agreement's going to continue without the United States of America.

Image

America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.

Image

This President has made, I regret to say, a colossal error of judgment. and judgment is what we look for in the…

Image

From the moment I take office, I will stand up to the special interests and stand with hardworking families so that we…

Image

America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures.

Image

What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76…

Image

Israel gets more than half of all the military purchasing assistance that America gives to all the nations in the world.

Image

Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream…

Image

Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have…

Image

I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist.…

Image

I think that too far, too much, to a greater degree than is anywhere near appropriate, America and our politics are being…

Image

And now that the Greatest Generation is getting older, I think it is the responsibility of all Americans to make sure we…

Image

Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose…

Image

Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if…

Image

Unlike George Bush and his friends at the big oil companies, I'm going to work for a real energy policy for this…

Image

In the 1950s and '60s, America's natural resources were in bad shape. Communities were so polluted that clouds of smog lingered over…

Image

America has everything most countries envy. A Constitution which is the treasure of mankind, a strong military, natural resources of every kind.…

Image

I will never conduct a war or start a war because we want to; the United States of America should only go…

Image

Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a…

Image

Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength…

Image

America that has done more to support Israel than any other country cannot be true to our own values if we allow…

Image

We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many…

Image

America is the one that leads the effort to make sure the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea is protected.

Image

I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

Image

I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America.

Image

George Bush's vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend, the America I have fought…

Image

An old American patriot described today's situation very well. As America fought for its independence, Benjamin Franklin said, "we must all hang…

Image

If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when…

Image

America must always be the world's paramount military power, but we can magnify our power through alliances.

Image

I believe America is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances.

Image

My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush

Image

The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country,…

Image

The fact is that in too many parts of our country, we still have discrimination. And affirmative action is not just something…

Image

It's not normal that, when you close your eyes and listen to the news, too often the political back-and-forth in America sounds…

Image

I believe that this president [George W. Bush], regrettably, rushed us into a war, made decisions about foreign policy, pushed alliances away.…

Image

Other authors on America

More by John F. Kerry

I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields…

The fact is that in too many parts of our country, we still have discrimination. And affirmative action is not just something that applies…

People talk about [Bashar] Assad running Syria. He doesn't control his own country. He's down to about 20, 25 percent of the country. What…

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

You cannot bring peace in Syria as long as [Bashar] Assad is, in fact, there.

There's an agreement that Syria should be a unified country, united; that it needs to be secular; that ISIL needs to be taken on;…

It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one.

There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.

I have confidence in my campaign. I have assembled a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush, and any rumors to…

In a few years, you should be able to plug your American-made plug-in hybrid into the outlet in your garage, so that you never…

Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must…

America must always be the world's paramount military power, but we can magnify our power through alliances.

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

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

War should be not a war of choice; it should be a war of necessity. And it should be a last resort.