John Kerry quotes

" I voted to hold Saddam Hussein accountable. I knew we had to hold him accountable. There's never been a doubt about that. But I also know that if we had done this with a sufficient number of troops, if we had done this in a globalized way, if we had brought more people to the table, we might have caught Saddam Hussein sooner. We might have had less loss of life. We would be in a stronger position today with respect to what we're doing. " # Defense # World Affairs # Love

" How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? " # Mistakes

" American can do better, and help is on the way. " # America

" I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA. " # Politicians and Politics

" We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block. " # Politicians and Politics

" At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans. " # Politics

" I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president. " # President

" When President Bush invaded Iraq after 9
11 it was like Truman invading Mexico after Pearl Harbor. " # Politics

" We feel we have been used in the worst fashion by the administration of this country. ... And we cannot consider ourselves America's best men when we are ashamed of and hated what we were called on to do in Southeast Asia. " # Books - Reading # America # Government

" There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50-caliber machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages. All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare, all of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions and all of this is ordered as a matter of written established policy by the government of the United States from the top down. And I believe that the men who designed these, the men who designed the free fire zone, the men who ordered us, the men who signed off the air raid strike areas, I think these men, by the letter of the law, the same letter of the law that tried Lieutenant [William] Calley, are war criminals. " # Poetry and Poets # War # Freedom