Political Quotes

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017 under President Barack Obama. A member of the Democratic Party, Kerry previously represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate from 1985 to 2013. He was the Democratic nominee for President in 2004, losing to incumbent George W. Bush. Throughout his career, Kerry has focused on issues such as climate change, international relations, and veterans' affairs. He played a significant role in negotiating the Paris Agreement on climate change during his tenure as Secretary of State.

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Jan 18, 2005

I think it's important to note that, in the midst of what was sometimes a very divisive campaign, there was strong agreement between President Bush and Senator Kerry that our number-one priority, that our single greatest challenge, is…

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Jan 18, 2005

I don't want to have you in a circumstance where you're writing something, years later, about the fog of war.

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Jan 18, 2005

We have to hold him to those commitments.

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Jan 18, 2005

The success of freedom in Afghanistan and Iraq will give strength and hope to reformists throughout the region.

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Jan 18, 2005

I think there's a tentativeness, certainly about the security situation in four of the 18 provinces.

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Jan 18, 2005

What we've done in Iraq is what bin Laden could not have hoped for in his wildest dreams.

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Jan 18, 2005

Now we have reached a moment of opportunity, and we must seize it.

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Jan 18, 2005

Americans are dying, and our approach to burden-sharing is to wait for others to come to us?

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Jan 18, 2005

I actually think that the Bush administration's foreign policy over the last four years has been, on many fronts, misguided and self-defeating, and I will continue to oppose these policies.

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Jan 18, 2005

And America stands with oppressed people on every continent--in Cuba and Burma and North Korea and Iran and Belarus and Zimbabwe.

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Jan 18, 2005

Time and again, this administration has tried to leave the American people with the impression that Iraq has well over 100,000 fully trained, fully competent military police and personnel. And that is simply not true.

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