Quotes by John F. Kerry

John Forbes Kerry is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013.

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I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

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Climate change, if unchecked, is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity, and livelihoods across the globe.

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If we don't preserve the oceans from nitrate runoff and plastic and chemicals, and if we don't preserve it from acidification, and if we don't preserve it from grotesque overfishing - too much money chasing too few fish - we're going to have the most massive ecosystem on the planet in peril.

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I went into the Navy because I love the ocean, and I am still privileged to have a place that I can go to that's by the water.

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NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

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