John F. Kerry

John F. Kerry
John Forbes Kerryis an American diplomat and Democratic Party politician who is the 68th and current United States Secretary of State. He previously served in the United States Senate, where he chaired the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Kerry was the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 December 1943
CountryUnited States of America
From the moment I take office, I will stand up to the special interests and stand with hardworking families so that we can give America back its future and its ideals.
You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.
Capturing Saddam Hussein and ensuring that this brutal dictator will never return to power is an important step toward stabilizing Iraq for the Iraqis. Let's also be clear: Our problems in Iraq have not been caused by one man, and this is a moment when the administration can and must launch a major effort to gain international support and win the peace.
Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.
Those who try to stifle the vibrancy of our democracy and shield policies from scrutiny behind a false cloak of patriotism miss the real value of what our troops defend and how we best defend our troops. We will ask questions and we will defend our democracy.
It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.
What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back... [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.
I will never cede the authority of our country or our security to any other nation. I'll never give a veto over American security to any other entity - not a nation, not a country, not an institution.
Democrats proposing success in Iraq by political solution.
Bush-McCain stategy in Iraq is policy to stay, not to win.
The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for."
There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.
I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.
I have confidence in my campaign. I have assembled a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush, and any rumors to the contrary are completely erroneous.