Senator John Kerry Quotes

It would be hard to blame you for having trouble taking much of what is said in Washington seriously. You read more

It would be hard to blame you for having trouble taking much of what is said in Washington seriously. You heard about the Medicare actuary who was forced to fudge the numbers and lie to Congress to keep his job. You heard the falsified numbers in Iraq on everything from the cost of the war to the number of trained Iraqi troops to a slam dunk case for weapons of mass destruction. You heard about the administration sponsored fake newscasts to mislead people all across America.

There is a direct link between the federal tax cut of 2001 and state tax increases in 2003. When the read more

There is a direct link between the federal tax cut of 2001 and state tax increases in 2003. When the federal government's mistakes force states to raise their taxes, it not only robs Peter to pay Paul, but it hurts hard-working families and it undermines our economy's strength.

Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn't. I don't want abortion. read more

Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn't. I don't want abortion. Abortion should be the rarest thing in the world. I am actually personally opposed to abortion. But I don't believe that I have a right to take what is an article of faith to me and legislate it to other people. That's not how it works in America.

So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, read more

So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?"

Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks read more

Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks of mercury poisoning aren’t real. No, lobbyists for the big industries just say they can’t afford to make changes.

We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to read more

We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.

When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don’t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest read more

When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don’t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change anything when that energy is focused toward justice

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.

Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I read more

Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans are not. It is time to speak again and stand again for the ideal that in the richest nation ever on this planet, it is wrong for 41 million Americans, most of them in working families, to worry at night and wake up in the morning without the basic protection of health insurance.

I still believe America’s destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting read more

I still believe America’s destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.