John Kerry Quotes

Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government.

The Philippines is for the Philippines. We can defend ourselves.

One must remember that the Jews have one, tiny country, the only place they have the right and capability to defend themselves by themselves. And it is our duty and my responsibility to see that we will never compromise about that.

Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.

The survival of this country depends upon letting the world know we have the power and the ability to use it if the occasion demands.

While there are still imperialist aggressors, the state that has no defense power of its own to protect its sovereignty against the internal and external enemies is, in fact, not a fully independent and sovereign state.

We need to be as well prepared to defend ourselves against public health dangers as we should be to defend ourselves against any foreign danger.

The solution to Iraq - an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself - is more than a military mission. Precisely the reason why I sent more troops into Baghdad.

In military terms, if you're not winning, sometimes you are losing. We've seen the Taliban and associated terrorist organizations make gains in recent years. It's time to stop those gains and roll them back. There's a lot of different techniques to do so, but we cannot allow Afghanistan to once again become an ungoverned country from which terrorist organizations can launch attacks against the United States and our citizens.

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.

A country needs to be able to feed itself, fuel itself, and fight for itself.

I need more time to develop as a player and as a person.

You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better.

The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.

Niggaz need guns, too.

We have had no specific or credible threats, but we don't take that as any kind of comfort. We know we need to be ready and we know that, that vigilance is the price of freedom.

We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.

Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the world.

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

Growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day.

America has the mightiest military on the planet, and they didn't get there with entertainers.

Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come to us again. All Americans understand the basic lessons of history: that we need to be resolute and able to protect ourselves, to prevent threats and domination by others.

We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom.

I believe from what I have lately seen that we should be substantially safe were our Citizens Armed, but we have not as many Arms as we have Enemies in the State.