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John F. Kerry
American
Politician
Born:
December 11, 1943 Quotes about John Kerry
America
Change
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Me
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You
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I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
John F. Kerry
Service
War
Struggle
Patriotism
Courage
Military
Saw
Both
Learned
Protest
Just
Stop
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Military Service
NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.
John F. Kerry
Today
Future
Technology
Reality
Job
Our
Jobs
NAFTA
New
Economy
Globalization
Wage
New Technology
Low-Level
Creating
Skills
Productivity
Based
Competing
The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.
John F. Kerry
Work
Best
Needs
Together
Stronger
Country
Our
Way
Crises
Crisis
Out
Best Way
Touch
Facing
Make
Genuine
Real
Begin
America
American
Artificial
Interest
Agenda
Work Together
Manufacture
Special
Special Interest
Serve
Bipartisanship
If we don't preserve the oceans from nitrate runoff and plastic and chemicals, and if we don't preserve it from acidification, and if we don't preserve it from grotesque overfishing - too much money chasing too few fish - we're going to have the most massive ecosystem on the planet in peril.
John F. Kerry
Money
Too Much
Chasing
Few
Too
Too Much Money
Ecosystem
Most
Peril
Massive
Chemicals
Oceans
Fish
Going
Much
Planet
Grotesque
Plastic
Preserve
I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.
John F. Kerry
Would
Rather
NAACP
Than
Candidate
It took President Obama to make America lead like America again.
John F. Kerry
President
Took
President Obama
Obama
Lead
Like
Make
America
Again
President Obama and I both believe we don't have time for a meeting anywhere of the Flat Earth Society.
John F. Kerry
Time
Believe
Society
President
Meeting
President Obama
Earth
Obama
Both
Flat
Anywhere
I went into the Navy because I love the ocean, and I am still privileged to have a place that I can go to that's by the water.
John F. Kerry
Love
Water
Ocean
Because
Am
Still
Go
Privileged
Place
Navy
Climate change, if unchecked, is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity, and livelihoods across the globe.
John F. Kerry
Health
Food
Change
Threat
Supplies
Globe
Climate
Climate Change
Urgent
Across
Livelihood
Biodiversity
Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.
John F. Kerry
Needs
You
Other
Meets
Way
Marketplace
Out
Folks
Individual
Countries
Global
Policy
How
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Effectively
Get
Interest
Interests
Your
Figure
Many
Assertion
Served
The most powerful Vietnam movie, to me, was 'The Deer Hunter,' which was more about what happened to the folks who went and about their relationships.
John F. Kerry
Me
Relationships
Hunter
Folks
About
More
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Movie
Happened
Which
Vietnam
Who
Deer
The solution to climate change is staring us in the face. It's energy policy. If we pursue a global clean-energy economy, we can cut dramatically the amount of carbon pollution we emit into the atmosphere and prevent the worst impacts of climate change.
John F. Kerry
Change
Face
Energy
Dramatically
Worst
Solution
Impacts
Atmosphere
Prevent
Pursue
Economy
Global
Policy
Climate
Climate Change
Pollution
Energy Policy
Cut
Us
Carbon
Staring
Amount
The bottom line is that the impacts of climate change can exacerbate resource competition, threaten livelihoods, and increase the risk of instability and conflict, especially in places already undergoing economic, political, and social stress.
John F. Kerry
Change
Conflict
Competition
Political
Stress
Increase
Resource
Exacerbate
Threaten
Impacts
Risk
Economic
Instability
Bottom
Bottom Line
Undergoing
Climate
Climate Change
Line
Places
Social
Livelihood
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
Truth
Democracy
You
Free
Free Speech
Sets
Say
More
Yes
Truthful
Being
Want
After
Anything
Us
Even
Speech
It's not enough for one country or even a few countries to reduce emissions when other countries continue to fill the atmosphere with carbon pollution as they see fit.
John F. Kerry
Country
Few
Other
Enough
Other Countries
One Country
See
Atmosphere
Emissions
Countries
Reduce
Continue
Fit
Pollution
Even
Fill
Carbon
Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.
John F. Kerry
Class
Abandon
Democrats
Real
Middle
Middle Class
I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.
John F. Kerry
You
Anger
Better
Cause
Important
Energy
Think
Carefully
Rap
Pretty
Poetry
Hip-Hop
Lot
Listen
Social
Fascinated
We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.
John F. Kerry
Chaos
Secure
Traded
Left
Dictator
America
Less
President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care and concern and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says thank you to its most exceptional men and women.
John F. Kerry
Home
You
Respect
Welcome
Women
Care
Made
Men
Men And Women
Nation
Thank You
President
Our
President Obama
Says
Obama
Troops
Troops Home
Exceptional
Mission
Most
Concern
How
His
Thank
Deserve
I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives.
John F. Kerry
Life
Musicians
People
Inspire
Political
Somebody
Young
Other
See
Able
Writers
Like
Know
Terms
Make
Real
Lot
Political Life
Artists
Young People
Choices
Who
Connect
Washington
Lives
Need
If you've ever played golf, you know that you yell 'fore' off the tee. You're not threatening somebody; you're warning them: 'Look, don't get hit by the ball, it's coming.'
John F. Kerry
You
Somebody
Threatening
Know
Look
Fore
Ball
Coming
Yell
Off
Hit
Get
Golf
Them
Warning
Ever
Played
Tee
You can't let concerns stop you; they drive you and they motivate you.
John F. Kerry
You
Drive
Concerns
Motivate
Stop
I think, in the long run, we have to wean ourselves from a carbon-based economy. We absolutely have to.
John F. Kerry
Long
Think
Ourselves
Run
Absolutely
Long Run
Economy
You just don't, in the 21st century, behave in 19th-century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.
John F. Kerry
Fashion
You
Country
Invading
Another
Up
Behave
Just
Century
My favorite album is 'Abbey Road.' I love 'Hey Jude.'
John F. Kerry
Love
Hey
Favorite
Abbey
Road
Jude
Album
In 1970, as a 26 year-old, I joined in the effort in my home state of Massachusetts to organize for Earth Day. But what made the event so successful was that I was only one of about 20 million Americans of all ages and backgrounds who got involved.
John F. Kerry
Day
Home
Made
State
Earth
Earth Day
Backgrounds
About
Only
Joined
Massachusetts
Involved
Got
Year-Old
Effort
American
Ages
Successful
Organize
Who
Home State
Event
Million
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