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John Kerry

American politician and diplomat (born 1943)

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    Born 1943
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Summary
Updated 2026-06-09

A decorated Vietnam veteran who returned to testify against the war, then spent nearly three decades in the Senate before losing the 2004 presidential race to George W. Bush by a margin close enough to sting.

Biography

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Born into the Forbes family in Colorado in 1943, Kerry enlisted in the Naval Reserve after Yale and commanded a Swift Boat in Vietnam, earning three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star, and a Bronze Star. He came home and flipped: testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the Fulbright Hearings, he called U.S. policy in Vietnam a cause of war crimes, becoming a national face of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. After a failed 1972 House run and a stretch in law, he was elected Massachusetts lieutenant governor in 1982, then won a Senate seat in 1984. He held it for 28 years, securin…

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Sourced, dated quotes from John Kerry

John Kerry
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It's the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.
— Sept 6, 2004
John Kerry
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I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty.
— Acceptance Speech at Democratic National Convention, July 29, 2004
John Kerry
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America must always be the world's paramount military power, but we can magnify our power through alliances.
— May 27, 2004
John Kerry
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I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it. ...
— San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 2004 pE2
John Kerry
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We're going to keep pounding. These guys [Bush Administration] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen. It's scary.
— Kerry uttered these words, not knowing there was a microphone recording it March 12, 2004
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