Maxioms by Senator John Kerry
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.
Just to make certain that I wasn't missing anything, as we see a lot of people running around talking about read more
Just to make certain that I wasn't missing anything, as we see a lot of people running around talking about the basis for all these values, I went back and reread the New Testament the other day, from one side to the other, and make certain that I hadn't missed anything. You know what? In the three years of Jesus Christ's mission, of his ministry, there is no mention whatsoever — or even a hint — that you ought to be taking health care or educational opportunity away from children in order to give to the richest people in the world. None whatsoever.
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.
The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies.
The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies.
The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I read more
The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administration’s duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not.
