John Kerry Quotes

No one can plausibly argue that ridding the world of Saddam Hussein will not significantly improve the stability of the region and the security of American interests and values.

I still think the world is better off and safer without Saddam Hussein.

Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq.

The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.

All around the world one heard or read that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.

In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq.

The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.

Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.

After spending the 1980s building up Saddam's Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, U.S. policy abruptly reversed course with his invasion of Kuwait and has since tried to cut him down to size. The policy is called 'containment,' but the question is, containment of what?

From 2002 to the end of his presidency, George W. Bush routinely was accused by the Left of 'creating chaos:' chaos in Iraq, chaos in Afghanistan, chaos in the Muslim world, chaos among our allies.

By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.

I don’t think that we have ever had a coherent strategy on Iraq.

Should President Clinton have killed Osama bin Laden when he had the opportunity in 1990s? Should President Bush have sent the U.S. military into Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein in 2003? Should President Obama have withdrawn all troops from Iraq in 2011? Such questions provide no real insight into future considerations.

Both Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama pursued policies of regime change after 9/11 - with Bush removing al-Qaida's safe haven in Afghanistan and the sadistic anti-American dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq - but Obama took it a step further and disregarded regional stability as a guiding factor for U.S. policy.

If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that?

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda.

I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein: 'You're a threat'. And the 9/11 attacks accentuated that threat, as far as I'm concerned.

The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.

People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.

The war in Iraq is a serious situation. It's - it involves the worst foreign policy mistake in the history of this country. So we should take everything serious. This is - we find ourselves in a very deep hole. We need to find a way to dig out of it.

I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.

It's just a matter of time before we go into Iraq and get Saddam Hussein. I think just before Bush falls below 50 percent, that's when we'll be going.

I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein. And when the president made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him.

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.