John Kerry actually said...

"He had $5.6 trillion of surplus, right? He made a choice about what to do with that. A lot of us made a different choice. I voted against his plan. I thought his was the wrong choice."

"catastrophic."

"Of all the wrong choices that President Bush has made, the most catastrophic choice is the mess that he has made in Iraq."

"John Kerry dropped in the polls. He's launched a new offensive and hired some new political guns."