John Kerry Quotes

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

There is no area where experience matters more than in war and diplomacy.

I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

War is too serious a matter to be entrusted to generals.

The Lesson is Plain: If You Want WAR, vote for HUGHES! If You Want Peace With Honor, VOTE FOR WILSON.

I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake.

The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

They [politicians] have defined the war simply in terms of the detonation of explosives. When you look at the broader picture, America is mired in two wars that we're losing at the moment. We have a political environment that is as poisonous as anything I've seen, at least since the end of Vietnam.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

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

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms

In one question you are expressing a world of opinion. Because it is you who thinks that America has been mistakenly starting these conflicts. I happen to agree with you, and I will repeat what your question suggested...we have mistakenly gotten into one fracas after another. Why we do that [United States has insisted on keeping up a string of enemies, and the wars associated with creating those enemies], I think it's because we're afraid to look in the mirror and understand who we are.

I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine.

You have to decide in advance whether you're ready go to war. If you guys are ready to send a million troops into Ukraine and fight World War III, you're going to do it without my support because I think that's a really foolish notion.

I would not have gone into Iraq.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?