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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.


John F. Kerry

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STEVE SCHMIDT By 1973, John Kerry had already accused American soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam, throw...
ANN COULTER The American consumer is not chopped liver, ... We ought to know about these things.
MAX CLELAND Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching...
HAROLD E. VARMUS Just as Lieutenant Kerry did not hesitate to risk his life to protect the men who served with him in...
BARACK OBAMA We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black ...
BOBBY SEALE Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I...
MAX CLELAND we believe -- John Kerry and I -- that this war is winnable; they don't.
JOHN EDWARDS I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.
MIKE MANSFIELD I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in...
HARRISON FORD During the Vietnam War, any young men -- including the current president, the vice president and me ...
BILL CLINTON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The dead could not speak against the war from Vietnam. Who to speak for them if not Kerry?
JOE FINAN Those of us who finally saw through the Vietnam war saw through this war, and all the actions that w...
DANIEL ELLSBERG The White House began airing their TV commercials to re-elect the president, and the John Kerry camp...
JAY LENO I think what we saw in John Kerry last night was a strength of conviction, a vision that we want to ...
JOHN EDWARDS I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n...
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SENATOR JOHN KERRY Patriotism is the surefire wingnut that binds our diverse society. Rulers historically used patrioti...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Sec...
KARL MARLANTES In 1968 I organized the Hippie Bus Tour to Queens as a satirical cultural exchange tour and I attemp...
JOEY SKAGGS If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam Ð oh wait, he does.
ANN COULTER If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam Ð oh wait, he does.
ANN COULTER John Kerry takes a backseat to no one when it comes to maintaining the strongest military on the fac...
DAVID WADE I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Conventio...
HAROLD FORD, JR. It's hard for me to listen to President Bush invoking my father's memory to attack John Kerry. Senat...
CAROLINE SCHLOSSBERG It's hard for me to listen to President Bush invoking my father's memory to attack John Kerry. Senat...
CAROLINE KENNEDY SCHLOSSBERG The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public agains...
BRUCE JACKSON If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam Ð oh w...
ANN COULTER When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... In the Vietnam War some counted on Jesus, others John Wayne, I went with the only one who would have...
BOBBY W. MILLER I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recom...
THOMAS S. MONSON I know John Kerry well, ... I spent six years working with him in the Senate, and we spent a lot of ...
JOHN EDWARDS She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
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TAD DEVINE John Kerry says we didn't have any allies in this war.ÊWhat's he say to Tony Blair?ÊWhat's he say ...
GEORGE W. BUSH I had just retired and was not sure what I was going to do. I hadn't played (softball) in 35 years. ...
BILL PORTER Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikit...
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JOE KLEIN In the years that followed the Harrison campaign, many candidates—from Colonel James 'Young Hickor...
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AL FRANKEN I remember the youth movement in 1968. It started on American university campuses as a protest again...
HELMUT SCHMIDT The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry You can understand why...
JAY LENO I care about John Kerry.
TUCKER CARLSON One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the...
MARK BOAL John Kerry believes in America.
BARACK OBAMA As a child, I thought that war and peace were opposites. Yet I lived in peace when Vietnam was in fl...
KIM THúY I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention...
BENJAMIN SPOCK I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the interven...
BENJAMIN SPOCK I cannot get John Edwards and John Kerry -- maybe they ought to meld here. And I think maybe they mi...
DAVID BONIOR One of the lessons of the Vietnam war is that when politicians dabble in military affairs they tie t...
CHRIS MULLER I just saw a big sign with the F-word.
COLLIN ASHTON The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two confli...
GEORGE MCGOVERN Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's c...
JOHN GREEN I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does ...
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JOHN GREEN We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
JOHN GREEN It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.'
'Right, i...
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JOHN GREEN I'm on a rollercoaster that only goes up
JOHN GREEN I want to see you again tonight, but I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow - Augustus W...
JOHN GREEN I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
JOHN GREEN I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good...
JOHN GREEN Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says,...
JOHN GREEN I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will c...
JOHN GREEN you gave me a forever within the numbered days and i can't tell you how thankful i am for our little...
JOHN GREEN I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time ...
JOHN GREEN My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
JOHN GREEN I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I...
JOHN GREEN He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice...
JOHN GREEN Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa.
JOHN GREEN I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.
JOHN GREEN The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I believe in true love, you know? I don’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or no...
JOHN GREEN I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward conscio...
JOHN GREEN Even though I was in bed and he was in his basement, it really felt like we were back in that uncrea...
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JOHN GREEN Afro-Americans. Which is but a wedding, however, of two confusions, an arbitrary linking of two unde...
JAMES BALDWIN Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON God Bless John Kerry. He just cinched this whole nomination. With Senator Kerry, it is Christmas eve...
DON STEWART This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking....
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen
WILLIAM HENRY The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army t...
MORT WALKER Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.
ALEXANDRA KERRY John Kerry speaks French fluently. Democrats are saying he's one in a million. A war hero who speaks...
JAY LENO In my 39 years in the military, I have learned that you are not a profession just because you say yo...
MARTIN DEMPSEY I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.
ROBERT JAY LIFTON It is necessary to establish ban on military flights over Kosovo. That is one of the ways to stop Se...
IBRAHIM RUGOVA George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said...
PETER T. KING I look forward to that debate, when John Kerry, a war hero with a chest full of medals, is standing ...
TERRY MCAULIFFE [Sen. John Kerry , D-Mass., said Bush] continues to invent a false link between the war in Iraq and ...
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JOHN F. KENNEDY Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.
JOHN F. KENNEDY A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a natio...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknow...
JOHN F. KENNEDY War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The human mind is our fundamental resource.
JOHN F. KENNEDY For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their ch...
JOHN F. KENNEDY When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents dan...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon an...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all c...
JOHN F. KENNEDY A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what i...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The best road to progress is freedom's road.
JOHN F. KENNEDY The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
JOHN F. KENNEDY A child miseducated is a child lost.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. ...
JOHN F. KELLY Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the fu...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
JOHN F. KENNEDY A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Whether you're a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-st...
JOHN F. KELLY The one thing I was always told is you absolutely have to tell truth to power. Whether you're a ...
JOHN F. KELLY Those with less of a sense of service to the nation never understand it when men and women of charac...
JOHN F. KELLY We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
JOHN F. KENNEDY