John F. Kerry

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?

I think it's important to note that, in the midst of what was sometimes a very divisive campaign, there was strong agreement between President Bush and Senator Kerry that our number-one priority, that our single greatest challenge, is…

Senator Lugar has--we've talked about this--to close the fuel cycle, to make it not possible for countries to enrich uranium or other fuels to the point that they are left with the fuel.

I'm also concerned by the fact that we've never fully funded, it appears to me, the Nunn-Lugar program.

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

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

What we've done in Iraq is what bin Laden could not have hoped for in his wildest dreams.

Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the training ground for the next generation of professionalized terrorists.

Americans are dying, and our approach to burden-sharing is to wait for others to come to us?

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.

The election that's going to take place, that has to take place--has to take place--on January 30th, provides a moment of opportunity.

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