The Bush administration miscalculated by deciding to go it alone without strong allies. The Bush administration miscalculated when they waited three years after September 11 to start to reform our intelligence.

He blasted President Bush's tax cuts and promised that he and Kerry would create new jobs if elected.

And this is not a Democratic message or a Republican message, this is an American message.

There is no red state, there is no blue state. There is only one United States of America.

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

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

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.

... 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...

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.