John Kerry Quotes

One mistake followed the other, and the price was in human lives.

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

We’ve got to accept that we’re going to lose people in this deal. How many, I don’t know. Could be a lot.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Only the young die good.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

War is about dead people.

I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

War is hell.

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.

It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be US Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate.

You can hide the caskets but you can’t hide the casualties.