If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me. — John F. Kerry Copy Share 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… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
If [Bashar] Assad himself could save this whole process by saying, "I will engage in a managed transition where we all work… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
You might not see climate change as an immediate threat to your job, your community, or your families," Kerry said. "But let… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Let me just say you could end this violence within a very short period of time, have a complete ceasefire - which… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
If Russia is there [in Syria] alone fighting them [ISIL], guess what? Russia becomes the target and Russia starts seeing - who… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
I don't believe we need a good conservative judge, and I don't believe we need a good liberal judge. I subscribe to… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here.… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
I will never conduct a war or start a war because we want to; the United States of America should only go… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
[Bashar] Assad himself has said on several occasions recently that if the people of Syria don't believe I should be there in… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
If you can resolve this transition of [Bashar] Assad, that is absolutely possible, but you have to have a clarity for everybody… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
If the threat is jihadism - and it is - and the threat is the destruction of Syria so that all of… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The problems of health care can be solved if we stop giving tax cuts to those who have the most, and start… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
After Mitt Romney said it would be naive to go into Pakistan to pursue the terrorists, it took President Obama, against the… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day,… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
If you don't have two states, you have one state, already the non-Jewish population outnumbers the Jewish population in one state. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
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… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The fact is that in too many parts of our country, we still have discrimination. And affirmative action is not just something that applies… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
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… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
You cannot bring peace in Syria as long as [Bashar] Assad is, in fact, there. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
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;… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
I have confidence in my campaign. I have assembled a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush, and any rumors to… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
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… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
America must always be the world's paramount military power, but we can magnify our power through alliances. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image