John F. Kerry

Time and again, this administration has tried to leave the American people with the impression that Iraq has well over 100,000 fully trained, fully competent military police and personnel. And that is simply not true.

The success of freedom in Afghanistan and Iraq will give strength and hope to reformists throughout the region.

I think there's a tentativeness, certainly about the security situation in four of the 18 provinces.

if, in fact, the Lord Almighty came down and said, 'Look, we guarantee we can monitor whether they're keeping the commitment--no nukes, no missiles'--would we make a deal with them?

There is this moment of opportunity, for whatever reason.

Iraq is, quote, 'a magnet for international terrorist activity.'

Now I think we have to rescue our policy from ourselves.

I actually think that the Bush administration's foreign policy over the last four years has been, on many fronts, misguided and self-defeating, and I will continue to oppose these policies.

I am troubled by the damage done to our image around the world; I am concerned by our loss of focus in fighting terrorism.

Now we have reached a moment of opportunity, and we must seize it.

I don't want to have you in a circumstance where you're writing something, years later, about the fog of war.

And America stands with oppressed people on every continent--in Cuba and Burma and North Korea and Iran and Belarus and Zimbabwe.