John F. Kerry
America has everything most countries envy. A Constitution which is the treasure of mankind, a strong military, natural resources of every kind. Above all, as Tocqueville said, a good people, which is what makes us great.Collection: Country
Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.Collection: Taken
My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.Collection: Country
What we do right now, today, matters.Collection: Matter
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; and that there needs to be a managed transition, but there is a difference obviously in what that means and what that outcome may or may not be.Collection: Country
There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.Collection: Country
Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans are not. It is time to speak again and stand again for the ideal that in the richest nation ever on this planet, it is wrong for 41 million Americans, most of them in working families, to worry at night and wake up in the morning without the basic protection of health insurance.Collection: Morning
Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly.Collection: Running
America is the one that leads the effort to make sure the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea is protected.Collection: Sea
Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.Collection: Heart
Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.Collection: Country
Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.Collection: Violence
You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?Collection: Responsibility
If the threat is jihadism - and it is - and the threat is the destruction of Syria so that all of these refugees are swamping into Europe and changing the whole character and politics of Europe, this is the time to unite to find a way out.Collection: Character
It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.Collection: Certain
We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.Collection: Games
You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.Collection: Sports
Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.Collection: Children
I had a chance to talk with President [Vladimir] Putin and he clearly said to me very directly, "I will think about that. I will think about this challenge of how we win." Look, this is not easy for Putin. Everybody says, "Oh, Putin's made a big move." Well, Putin is [in Syria] now; and if he wants to fight ISIL alone, that's a challenge, folks.Collection: Moving
America deserves a real discussion about real policy.Collection: Real
If the choice is one-state, Israel can either be Jewish or Democratic. It cannot be both.Collection: Israel
[Bashar] Assad has made a series of choices ever since then that is literally destroying his country.Collection: Country
It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.Collection: Years
Our cause in the war on terror isn't helped when we have army officers like Lieutenant General William Boykin speaking in evangelical churches and claiming this as some sort of battle for the Christian religion. That's wrong. That's un-American.Collection: Christian
The world has to save Syria. I mean, this has dramatic implications for the entire region, globally.Collection: Mean
My hope is the Trump administration will approach Russia strategically, with a clear purpose of trying to find more common ground, but without giving up on fundamental values and principles that are at the core of the United States' foreign policy.Collection: Giving Up
War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.Collection: Military
I will not stop in our efforts to hunt down and kill the terrorists.Collection: Effort
Nobody's interests are served by what's happening in Syria today. It's a catastrophe. It's the worst human catastrophe since World War II. And, as I said just now, it represents a failure of the entire international community to come to grips with solving it.Collection: War
I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.Collection: Children
I think the world is safer without Iran with a nuclear weapon. The world has got the potential to be safer if we fully implement the Paris agreement.Collection: Thinking
That's what I am standing up for - Israel's future as a Jewish and democratic state living side-by-side in peace and security with its neighbors.Collection: Israel
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.Collection: War
American can do better, and help is on the way.Collection: Way
After Mitt Romney said it would be naive to go into Pakistan to pursue the terrorists, it took President Obama, against the advice of many, to give that order and finally rid this earth of Osama bin Laden. Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.Collection: Order
In order to have the best intelligence in the world to know who the terrorists are and where they are and what they're plotting, you've got to have the best cooperation you've ever had in the world.Collection: Order
[Bashar] Assad himself has said on several occasions recently that if the people of Syria don't believe I should be there in the future, then I would step - I would leave. He has said it. He has, on occasion, hinted that he wants a political settlement of one kind or another. I think it's up to his supporters, his strongest supporters, to make it clear to him that if you're going to save Syria, Assad has made a set of choices - barrel bombing children, gassing his people, torturing his people, engaging in starvation as a tactic of war.Collection: Children
Let me just say you could end this violence within a very short period of time, have a complete ceasefire - which Iran could control, which Russia could control, which Syria could control, and which we and our coalition friends could control - if one man would merely make it known to the world that he doesn't have to be part of the long-term future; he'll help manage Syria out of this mess and then go off into the sunset, as most people do after a period of public life. If he were to do that, then you could stop the violence and quickly move to management.Collection: Moving
We have to create a process which has legitimacy for the people of Syria. And we have to have a process where the Russians and the Iranians and the neighbors - all of them, Saudis, Turks, Qataris, a very complicated brew - that you have to bring them together and they can find agreement. That's the fundamental premise of the Geneva Communique that you will have, by mutual consent, a process of transition.Collection: Agreement
The fact is that you literally, by definition, cannot have a Jewish state and a democratic state and have a whole bunch of Palestinians in it who are living under military rule while the rest of the country is living under civil rule, and they have different rights and different - it's just not a democracy.Collection: Country
If the tea party folks would go out there and get angry because they think their taxes are too high, for God's sake, a lot of citizens ought to get angry about the fact that they're being killed and our planet's being injured by what's happening on a daily basis by the way we provide our power and our fuel and the old practices that we have. That's something worth getting angry about.Collection: Party
You cannot bring peace in Syria as long as [Bashar] Assad is, in fact, there.Collection: Long
Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.Collection: Country
If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all.Collection: Damage
I think as we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the UN, it's a good moment to rekindle our efforts to make multilateralism work yet again. And I'm proud to say that in the Iran agreement I think we did show that it can work.Collection: Thinking
If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble.Collection: One Day
When President Bush sees America, he sees only a military superpower. I see a moral and idealistic beacon. Mr. Bush may talk about democracy all he wants, but it is not democracy to wilfully disdain and heap scorn on world opinion. We do not command moral leadership by starting pre-emptive wars.Collection: Military
We should focus more on the things we've accomplished, but I mean, obviously Syria disturbs me greatly and I'm not happy with where Syria is.Collection: Mean
It's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote.Collection: Country