John Kerry Quotes

While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice.

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

I am too realistic to believe in pacifism. But, nevertheless, the use of force should always be the last resort.

The United States will never take part in an aggressive war.

War is always an option. Peace is not.

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Nothing can justify war.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Violence is for mugs. War is for mugs.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

War is failure of diplomacy.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

I’m not opposed to all wars; just dumb wars.

There are two things that will always be difficult for a democratic people to do: to start a war and to finish it