He said he voted for the authority to go to war. He had no idea when he voted for that authority that it would be executed with the incompetence that this has.

Well, look, I mean, one of the things is, he sure would have a better plan -- anybody would have a better plan than this administration has.

We're going to reject this tired old hateful negative politics of the past.

This is an election that we're going to win.

President Bush was an unsuccessful businessman. He is four times more qualified to be vice president than George W. Bush ever was to be president.

I think we got a real shot Virginia. We might, he might have a shot in North Carolina. We got a shot in Arkansas...

He's not going to get the bump that traditionally got because he enters his convention at a higher number than any challenger that I know has ever entered his political convention.

Well, Bob, because 'those people,' they're our people. And we're glad that the African-American community is... Democrats, we're proud to have them.

A, he's got to tell people not just who he is, but what he stands for.

No journey ever started without taking the first step. It looks like the Republicans don't want to take the first step.

It looks like the Republicans don't want to take the first step. We know that the lead-up to the Iraqi war had some rather uninspired intelligence to be kind about it. So we probably need somebody new that will take action and will kind of…

No, it doesn't make sense but nothing this Congress does makes any sense. And the report as I understand it was very critical of Congress' role in this. So I'm not surprised. Dennis Hastert is a status quo kind of guy. And they haven't…

You know, with the love of my life for 26 years married, and even before that, the love of my life, Elizabeth.

... about values. Well, I know something about values, just like all of you do. I grew up in a small town in North Carolina. I know what values are, I grew up with them -- work, faith, responsibility, family...

Tony Blair didn't run from the report. He didn't try to not acknowledge it. Instead, what Tony Blair said was, I take full responsibility for the mistakes.

On the question, Who would make a better president, newly crowned VP candidate John Edwards with 47 percent, Dick Cheney, 38 percent.

This is the kind of man we grew up looking up to, respecting, somebody who believed in faith and family and responsibility.

Kerry and Edwards linked arms and projected a positive attitude in their first joint campaign appearance.