Maxioms by Senator John Kerry
Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate read more
Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their party’s base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.
I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When read more
I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When I came back from that war I saw that it was wrong. Some people don't like the fact that I stood up to say no, but I did
We’re busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is read more
We’re busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home.
Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering read more
Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.
This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no read more
This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.