President-Elect Biden Announces Key Members of Foreign Policy and National Security Team. 23. November 2020, abgerufen am 24. November 2020 (englisch): „Former Secretary of State John Kerry will fight climate change full-time as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and will sit on the National Security Council. This marks the first time that the NSC will include an official dedicated to climate change, reflecting the president-elect’s commitment to addressing climate change as an urgent national security issue.“
Matt Bai: Kerry's Undeclared War. In: New York Times. 10. Oktober 2004, abgerufen am 24. März 2016 (amerikanisches Englisch): „We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance... As a former law-enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise.“