"From the moment I take office, I will stand up to the special interests and stand with hardworking families so that we can give America back its future and its ideals." John Kerry
"George Bush's vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend, the America I have fought for in the Senate, and the America that I hope to lead as president.' John Kerry
"America can do better, and help is on the way." John Kerry
"This president has created an economy that feeds the special interests, the powerful and the corporate power, and he has not helped the average American worker advance their cause. I will." John Kerry
"Being lectured by the president (Bush) on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country." John Kerry
"There is a much cheaper way, less complicated way to bring Iraq and Saddam Hussein to its knees: it is simply to send the Bush economic team over there and let them run the country." John Kerry
"I don't think losing 3 million jobs, having deficits as far as the eye can go, having 2 million people lose their health insurance, turning your back on kids in schools and not funding No Child Left Behind represents a vision." John Kerry
"I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad." John Kerry
"Between now and the time I'm sworn in January 2005, I'm going to use every day to make this president accountable for making a mockery of the words 'No Child Left Behind.'" John Kerry
"I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life." John Kerry
"I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear." John Kerry
"Saying there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq doesn't make it so." John Kerry
"I think there has been an exaggeration of the terrorist threat." John Kerry
"We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance." John Kerry
"I have confidence in my campaign. I have assembled a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush, and any rumors to the contrary are completely erroneous." John Kerry
"I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service." John Kerry
"I know something about aircraft carriers for real." John Kerry
"I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. However, I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions." John Kerry
"We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children." John Kerry
"I will never conduct a war or start a war because we want to; the United States of America should only go to war because we have to. And if you live by that guidance, you'll never have veterans throwing away their medals or standing up in protest." John Kerry
"I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations." John Kerry
"I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important." John Kerry
